So, we had our house refinanced back in December.

This generally works in that the mortgage place gets it approved, then it gets sent off to a temporary bank until it gets picked up by a permanent bid. There's lots of mail the first month because the temp bank has to 1. announce that it has your account, and that's it's not permanent, 2. send you a bill, 3. announce when it gets picked up, 4. New bank has to say, "Oh hi!"

So all said things happened in the past month, the last letter being that Bank of America picked up our mortgage. That's not an, "Oh noes! Aren't they terrible and went bankrupt and stuff?!" statement. I have Bank of America. I really like Bank of America. Unlike Commerce, I've never had an issue with them. If we walk in and need something on our account, it's instantaneous. I can go drop off a check and before I get home it's already up on my online account. Mind you, the bank is less than a mile from my house.

So, back to the story, I got that letter in the mail two days ago, and thought to myself, "That's nifty! Maybe I can stop by and get the accounts connected so it'll be faster to pay my mortgage!"

Well, no.

They already did it for me! :D Like, my escrow information, pay dates, everything's already uploaded!

My intarwebs are being ninja at me!

The Recovery Cafe at the Rehab bar is calling for entries for a logo contest!

Submit black and white low rez .jpg format by THIS Friday to jen@jencoke.com

The winner gets a $25 food gift certificate and their logo will be on the back of the lab coats the waiters will wear!

Our friends Jen Coke and Tom Goedde are going to be running this resturaunt soon! Yay!

( Ima cut it 'cause it's long and rambly. Nothing in particular, just random thoughts on current issues and drama and coping mechanisms. )

PS, why the hell have I been posting so often???? o_O

So, last year for Conflation I had an art piece in mind for the Saturday party.

Based on The Nightengale, but I couldn't find a cage (or time) to finish it. Right after that someone on the steamfashion journal posted a Clockwork Bird Kit, which I thought would work awesome but it was really complicated. Then right before Xmas kukla_tko42 found a cage at a thrift store (though as thesigother said she didn't remember why). Then back to the steamfashion forum, I've been talking to one of the members about their brass bird, so now I'm considering it again... this time rather than using an mp3 player I may try to keep a lookout for an old music box with a really pretty song to it (something to go with The Nightengale and the Rose would be horrifically symbolic).

The funny thing is, I take nicknames given to me pretty seriously. Especially when multiple instances occur. Someone gave me a nickname of Nightengale when I was extremely little, I don't know who it was, but I've liked them ever since. My step-grandfather gave me the nickname "Jenny Lind" (aka The Swedish Nightingale) when I met him around age 9ish. I had no idea there was a correlation there. And really they always end up having a story to tell (Florence Nightengale, for example).

... yeah, at least I sing on key... sometimes... that's about it though XD

Friday, Jan 15, 2010

The planets say resistance can build desire and the more you can't have it, the more you want it. Spin your wheels today if you like because it probably won't get you anywhere. Today is one of those days for banging your head against the wall until you get tired.

;_;

I've never had my horoscope ever tell me, "Dude, you are SO not getting laid."

So yesterday we got a nifty $400 piece of paper that came with a new mattress!
(IE, we bought a new mattress, to be delivered on Tuesday) Yay new mattress!

...it came in the door 5 minutes ago...?

And it r comfy. Now I have an excuse to finish cleaning the room!

Mmmm... new mattress... and we uncovered the bed frame in the basement yesterday which means we can set that up too!

Yay decent bedding! :D

So today we got to work on the basement. Started around 1ish and we're taking a break (possibly for the day) at around 6. I can't say it looks completely different, but I'd say we're about halfway done, to the point that there are clear pathways to every point in the basement. We also rented a 20 yard dumpster and it's about 2/3 full.

Tomorrow I work on cleaning the top floor of the house, mainly in here (I took over the dining room for computer/art stuff). We're pretty good for the inspection on Tuesday, we still have a little left to move around in the room, but there's extra space now and that's good. Meanwhile I think Josh is going to continue working on the basement. Loren and Chelsea have been really helping out today, makes me happy. Brian is also helping out :)

I'm very happy with how non pack-ratty I've been. I'm looking at all this stuff wondering why I wanted it in the first place. I think having the dumpster's helping a lot though.

And getting new mattress with memory foam top... Mmmm... not sleeping on springs...

( So, as some of you may know, I recently got into bjds. Here's some basic background info on that. )

I got a suprise bjd for my christmas present from Jenny. I know what her personality is, but the name is... vexxing me. For RP characters I will research a name, look for bits of the character to base the name off of, research where their name might have come from (Example: Danovia - mix of Donovan (Dark Warrior) and Nova (New)). But sometimes the character will just come up with their own name (Abigail for example just kinda happened).

When I first got her, either blue bell or snow bell was popping into my head (like I said, I'm not really the one that names a character, because it's nothing I would consider). So I researched, and there's a tree called a snow bell that is styrax japonica - so I looked up what it's name was in Japanese (since she's got a very anime-like quality to her anyway), which is "Egonoki." But it wasn't fitting her personality quite right, so I continued to research. It will either be her pixie name or her last name.

SHE on the otherhand, keeps repeating "Willow!" at me.
...
Of all the overdone names... come on!
(Yes, I do have the nickname of Willow as well. That's a Buffy reference, and I was in high school. Shoosh.)

She'll also need a dragon name, since that's the modding plan I was having for her anyway... so we'll work on it.


The other new one I have is giving me lots of backstory and personality... no name yet though...

Thanksgiving = good. 3 separate events and all 3 desperately attempted to force us home with food. Food = love?

Ummm... work = busy. Tree!Drama died down (don't even ask) and just trying to shove as much merch out as possible. I also get to work 48 hours the week before Christmas, and have a visit in... 2 weeks. Visits seem to impede work, but meh.

Josh's dad's dog, Bolt, is probably getting put down tomorrow. They got the two goggies when Josh was 12, so is sad thing. Bolt is good dog, but has been going down hill and hasn't eaten in half a week.

I apparently have the vocab of a 10 year old today. Hmm.

School = forthcoming. Despite two of my group members in my final pretty well bombing out their section I'm pretty sure my grades are good. I only have two classes next quarter and I'm not looking forward to Research Methods. I'm forseeing falling asleep in class. I think my other class involves flash though, which is keen.

We'll be out of town next weekend for round one of Family Christmas Fun.

I sleep nao. Been doing more of that recently too. Odd.

Premier has just finished crashing for the second time tonight.

That final's not done yet. Maybe tomorrow when my class group gets together to actually frankenstein it together. Maybe. If I can remember hwo to do it, since I forgot to tell them about that one part that needs all the special effects. For the credits, so it's not like I can pop it out.

I should probably study for the actual final itself... oh, and those other two final projects + tests... yeah, those too.

And that accursed Con this weekend is getting in my way of getting this finished.

At least the major uber visit for work went well yesterday... Now I just have to figure out how to shove the other 30 boxes of incoming stock onto the floor...


Ah finals week, how I love you.

I think I'm going to go stick my head in the toilet now.

Hey guys,

So I'm working on my final for my audio visual class and I need some extras on Sunday evening. Would anyone be interested? Really it's all about dressing up in vamp/goth gear and walking menacingly out of some woods. That's it. The woods don't have to be particular, possibly Forest Park would work since I know they're open after dark.

I have to be at work in Ballwin at 9, so it'd be hopefully around 7.

I'm going to x-post around and see who's available - perhaps we can get dinner or something afterwords :)

Thank you!
-Jen Patton

So Josh introduced me to this ->http://braid-game.com/

You can buy it and download it off of Steam if you've got the dreaded Orange Box.

It's... just.. I... umm... O_O

My brain will explode now. Now back to more slacking off...

*scroungescrounge*

*digdig*

Hmmmmph...

*rustlerustle*

Nope. No food in the house. Crap.

*look around*

Also... no people. I am in the only one in the Schubox at the moment. 'Cept the kitties, of course.

Blarg?


... yeah, okay, guess I should start on my homework now... :P

For anyone interested, we're planning on going horseback riding on Saturday at Ace stables by my house. Meet @ Schubox at 2, cost is $25 for 45 min.

Just got this off one of the groups I'm in:

http://www.armynavydeals.com/asp/default.asp?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=all99c

Super crazy deals for army surplus stuff - good for steampunk~ :3

Oh, and ummm... ARRRR! XD

So...

we have two inspections coming through on Friday...

Would anyone like to borrow our cats for a few hours? One or two would be fine in the house, but... well... we don't just have that many...

Also... anyone want to help us clean? It won't be nearly as bad as the last time (actually most of the rooms just need stuff put away and a cleaning once over :3)

I'll be over here running around in a panic and starting back to school this week... and getting ready for visits at work.. heh... ... kthanx...

I got rained out!

Which normally wouldn't stop me, but Josh has a tired and we have plans later in the day. Tag that with Mandatory Family Fun tomorrow and bathroom painting on Monday... I don't get to go this year. Boo. ;_;

We're going to the Japanese festival tomorrow in the am, so if anyone wants to say hi give me a ring.... I'll also be in front of the climatron around 11am :3

Edit: Scratch that, nevermind. Stupid rains... >_

我終於瘦了 ! 我真的瘦了 ! 這東西真神奇 !

translates to:

I was finally thin! I was really thin! This thing is really mysterious!


I got spam in Dutch a couple of weeks ago...

Wi nøt trei a høliday in Schubox this yer?

See the løveli basement lakes

The wonderful telephøne system (it has a intercøm!)

And mani interesting furry animals

Including the majestic Møøch

A Møøch once bit my sister ...

Mynd you, Møøch bites Kan be pretty nasti...



(Ganked from MPatHG and harvested to mah nefarious wayz :3)

Happy B-day professor! May you have squee-tasticness ^_^

I went in to nysse's room and started looking around at stuff...

"Wash udder and teat parts thoroughly with clean water and soap before each milking to avoid contamination of milk."

...I just thought "Udderly sMOOth" was just a funny pun name for lotion. I was terribly wrong o_O

So it's apparently not been a good day for people, which sucks 'cause that's what I generally want for people on my birthday :(

I'm not a cheerleader, or I'd totally be pulling out the Optimist Power for everyone...

Just remember, people on my flist are awesome. People hurting people on my flist are NOT awesome. Apparently that's my zen for the day o_O

Went over to the Edwardsville Borders today and helped with completely reconfiguring their entire paperchase area. Flatlanders, go view it to see mah merchandising skills of an artist. Yep.

Trashed nao. Was wanting to hang out since I was already on the IL side, but I've gotta get pictures ready for Pagan Picnic. Feel free to come out this weekend to see mah other skills of an artist. And facepaint. And I'm already tired.

Off to the non intarnetted computer... curse you, network card. Curse you.

So one of my classes got switched to Monday. I found out 10 minutes after the class started. My counselor apologized, "I don't care if they don't tell me, but they at least need to tell you!"

Some of you may know what this entails... I D&D on Mondays. Goth nite's on mondays (not that I can go since i wake up at 6am). Sooo.... I'm out of Josh's game :( But Tom's game's switching to every other Sunday. So that means I'll have Th & Fri nights, Sat mornings and every other Sunday available o_O Even with Thursday nights where I'll be by myself 'cause Josh has class! o_O whatever shall I dooo with myself?!

We got a new phone for the house, so if you call and get a slighty younger male answering machine, that's why ;D

Josh will also hopefully have sound by the end of the night, and we're switching our computers. *crosses fingers*

Why am I tired at 9:30? Waaaaah.....

It could be the benadryl, or that I'm waking up at 6 tomorrow..

Guh. Muh. Duh.zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...

NATURE IS POKING OUT MY DAMN EYE! X_O

AUGH!
*eyepatch*
ARRRR!

Ah, allergy season. I keep think that I've escaped you only to realize that mine doesn't actually start 'til May.

*allergy medTHUNKZZZZZZ*

Josh pointed this out to me this morning:


Happy Mother's Day, ya'll! ^_^
Josh: "That doesn't have anything to do with mother's day!!!"
Me: "I know ^_^"

For those going to BBQ tomorrow (of which are not many):

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=38.74822,-90.43911&daddr=38.880640,+-90.933892&geocode=&hl=en&mra=me&mrcr=0&mrsp=0&sz=13&sll=38.751138,-90.451813&sspn=0.098129,0.154495&ie=UTF8&ll=38.837568,-90.691452&spn=0.392041,0.617981&t=h&z=11

They are coordinates, so it's a little weird, but accurate to a T from 70 and 270 to the park :3

Questions = call me :3

I've been passing these out all day...

So mom has reserved the pavilion we were *supposed* to get married at for next Sunday for an anniversary BBQ thingy... it's also mother's day as well, so you can invite your mom if you wanna, or sneak away after Mandatory Family Fun... would anyone be interested in coming? Pot luck 'n stuff? I'm thinking afternoonish (3 or 4? 5?)

Ok, so I was attempting horribly to keep this under wraps in case it didn't go through, but I interviewed for a new job. Well, old and new job. You see, as some of you may know I take care of the Paperchase department at the Borders I work at, on top of a bunch of other things as well, ie whenever anyone needs something somewhere else that's what I do.

So they're eliminating my PC position. I interviewed for the new position replacing it, and she said she would call me back the following week. But she didn't, and I was severely disappointed, especially since she didn't call me back period. So disappointed but I figured oh well. Just kinda sucks 'cause it was my favorite thing to do at the store 'sides cafe.

( Yeah, it sucked.... )

In other news, didn't go camping this weekend. It mudded. And potted. And we said no. Gotta unpack stuff later tonight, but I was very proud of us 'cause we got the foam we were planning on using for bedding dried out before it got icky. It doesn't sound like much, but it was.
Since we didn't go camping, dad came into town for Jeff's bday so we hung out w/dad & Janet all day, and had dinner w/all 4 parents, which is extremely unusual but good :3 Wanted to go to the BBQ for the runaway pirates, but that's okay....


On an alternate note, I have the budding idea to look into doing BJD mods. I have most of the components necessary to do so, and I was wondering if it would be possible to mod for people for parts. I don't have the money yet for a BJD, but things may be changing soon, and it's something I could see myself getting into, but responsibly. I heard people saying that there's a store in the area that works with them (does the doll store by our house do it?). Perhaps even working into making steampunk stuff and clothes for them... I actually have a stuffed bear that I *really* wanna steam up, but I gotta figure out how to get a tiny monacle, top hat or bowler, and cane for him...


I'm, umm, gonna go run around screaming nao, or something, or stuff. Or... ummm... yeah...

I did it for the lols - History Macros Community :3

Why must I keep finding these things?

Part 3 of the eternal saga of... Charlie. Chaaaaarliiiiiiie!

AAAH!
No, I'm not rickrolling this time.

o_O

AAAH!

Anyway, we're going to City Museum on Sunday if anyone wants to go :3

Just talked to my mom. Her mom on her side just died late last night. She was in her late 90's and my grandpa passed away years ago, and she's been in a nursing home for a very long time with dimensia, so I'd already lost my grandma a long time ago... but still, it's sad because she was the one I was closest to. As far as I know all my other grandparents are alright, so I shouldn't lose anymore this year. Down to 4 on my side from 8, but I have 5 on Josh's side, so my collection of grandparents is still strong (no, they're not trading cards, I swear. Random thought)

If you haven't heart of Susan Boyle yet, go here. She is full of win, and makes me happy :3

( Yup. I'm awake earlier than usual. Here be gay pirates and kitties. )

Also, if you haven't seen WootShirts they are pretty keen. You vote on shirts, and if they don't get enough sells then they get axed. Interesting. I dig the game console general And I wish I had this one for tomorrow

So, I is r going back to teh skewl.
(Why?)
'Cause, well, I don't have a bachelor's, and I want one, and it will make me moar qualified for munnies. Yes.
(But you already have a degree. Two, almost.)
Yeah, that lady never called me back. Anyway, I don't have a BA, and Game Design is awesome!
(But what are you going to get with a Game Art Design BA? You already have an arty throwaway degree. And you're going to have to get another AAS in order to get into the BA program.)
Yes, well, but, ummm... BA?
(...)
Wait! No! I have an argument for this! You see, I've been slowly getting more and more antsy over the past few months, in the "wtf have I been doing with my life?" sorta way. And I thought to myself, okay, what job would I want to have? I don't want to be a graphic designer, and much as I wouldn't mind any old art job, what is it that I WANT to do? And the answer that comes up is this - character designer. That's all I do anyway. I like creating new characters and backgrounds and style ideas and new and interesting things. That's just what I do. All the time. So, that's what I want to do. But there's only two industries that I can think of that do such a thing - movies or game design. And since I don't think there's a BA in character design, it seems like I could get a job much easier in the game industry and thereby the movie industry. Right? Does this make sense to anyone else?
(It doesn't make sense in half my head to begin with.)
The problem of course is that the college I'd like to go to is in Seattle... of course. But, if I can get the degree I can go for the job? Or just make my own job? Right?

::Edit - there were confusions. Josh and I are both going to ITT in June. Tomorrow we go into the FA dept. and to talk to the deans to figure out where we stand in what::

No, that's not a kooky little catch phrase - all the Schubox forks have gone missing! We have, like, 3 left that aren't threeks! o_O We've been noticing a lack for a few months, but, really, what the flying hell? How do forks go missing? They aren't in any bedrooms, not in the dishes or the cabinets?

Where all my forks at?? Pirates have stolen my forks!

Trying to drawr moar. Decided to specifically do b&w only, either that or storyboards. And quick stuff. I'll try to everyday, but no promises as usual :3

So I got bored and took a random "career personality quiz."

My top job choices are:
Funeral Director
Mechanical Engineer
Surgeon
Veterinarian Assistant
Personal Care and Services
Hotel Clerk
Electronic Equipment Repair

o_O

I took it here, but I don't really recommend it 'cause it's got 180000 ads to get to the results and over 400 questions. Ick.

Why do resumes always take so loooong? I swear that was like 3 hours. Mmmm... I cans want Nintendo jeorb.

Oh ya. I'm back in town. Hi. Seattle is green and shiny. Do want.

This is me, being all out of town 'til the 19th.

I've been running around in circles for the past couple of hours trying to finish packing and remembering what I'm forgetting. I think I have everything now though. Will probably need batteries for the camera, but I can get those there. And I think I have enough munnies, we should only be spending it on the weekned (and what we don't spend, bills! Yay!). Mainly worried about busing and getting a map, since I haven't been there and don't use the bus system... wooo...

We'll both have our phones on us in case something explodes.

Now, to get up at 7 am! WEEEEEEEEEE! *runs in moar circles*

Tomorrow, noon, we'll call it at Ichiban, sushi for all! ...who show up, anyway.

So, we all know that Johnny Depp is obviously in Alice and Wonderland that's coming out next year, right? Duh.

But have you seen the rest of the lineup?
Yea kids, Christopher Lee, Mr. Bean, Johnny Depp, Alan Rickman playing the GD Caterpillar and like 15 other awesome people in this. I will squee for actors alone, and I'm not that kinda girl!

*yawn* sleep nao