Let me tell you what is really scary! The box village in our basement.

Last night was the LAST NIGHT of moving, we were up past one in the morning but its all moved, it’s all done. And clean. Husband going over for a bit more vacuuming today, but today, at noon, we sever ties with the old apartment, Yahoo! My mother in law is amazing, spent her whole night finishing cleaning out our kitchen, while I scoured the bathrooms.

Now the terror is trying to make things semi-presentable for tomorrow night, our Haloween Party.

Holy cow. I’m tired.

People don’t really dress up for Halloween here at work. I’d have worn a wig or something, if I could have found anything this morning. I am wearing pumpkin earrings. Honestly, I’m so tired, I don’t know how much more I could have pulled together for today. Still, kinda sadlike about not having something fun to wear to work. Surprising lack of general candyness too, though that’s prolly best for me. There will be more than enough goodies tomorrow night.

Must get the brain ready for tomorrow.

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I ordered my Xbox LIVE beta kit this morning before work, by next week, wheee, I’ll be online with mah Xbox! Here is my tracking number, if you want to play along!

Also, speaking of following along, I added several may and june entries from private hidden place back into Questing. Many of them dealt with interviews and such, so they weren’t posted here during that whole find a job process.
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Busy weekend planned, Haloween party friday, Lunch and football on the tell with mother in law on saturday, Kung fu party saturday night woo, and Nanowrimo Madison Kick off party on Sunday. There are over 9500 people doing nanowrimo this year, crazy, can we break the 10k? that would double last year’s participants and be crazy. Today is your last day to sign up, so GO! DO! Write!

So, for those who are listening, I’ve added Questing entries from August 24th till now, something like 9 bonus entries to make up for my apparent lack of updatage.

Taking art courses 4 nights a week really hampers my free time. It’s a lot of work. Might be overdoing it a tad. Still I’m learning a lot. Love my drawing course, perplexed by my design course. I have a midterm next tuesday, in my drawing course, it’ll be a three hour drawing demonstrating all the things we’ve learned so far. This weekend I’ll be mostly playing catch up with my drawing homework, have a few to complete, as all 12 are due on tuesday before our midterm drawing.


While I draw, my Husband and ect, will continue moving the rest of our things from the apartment we lived two years in. I’m hoping we can get the majority out this weekend, but not holding my breath.

I love video games…

My husband picked up Blinx: The Timesweeper for me last night.
Apparently a great deal after my 25$ certificate from my birthday and trading in max payne and azurik. Something like 2 or 3 dollars, nice!

It’s a really interesting game, not really a straight platformer, and that makes you think. Sure, there is some jumping, dodging and shooting, but those time elements really mix things up. Have to be careful where you step or you might pick up the wrong time crystal, and you have to think about areas that might need special attention time wise, rewind, or pause might be the only way to get to that special cat icon.

The graphics are beautiful, especially once you get to the third set of levels in the caves, with shimmery lighting bouncing off of the walls and all items. I’m not sure if its the graphics alone or the combination with music, but the game seems very japanese.

I also really like the water effects, especially when you can pause and you go through it like jello, leaving a cat sized track, and when your pause runs out, the water rushes back to normal making big waves from the peaks. Very cool.

I don’t quite understand why the current time sweeper I have is an improvement over the previous one, but at least I have plenty of places to go back to to gather more gold.

Bonus tip: Try to keep some trash for the goal, you get trade in gold. Some items are better than others, the question mark balls can fetch at least 100g while most random trash is 1g-60g.

Overall though, I’m happy with the game, it’s nice to have something completely different to play.

I drew this last night, it’s the start of drawing some new stuff. This is the first rendition of Riade, the human agent npc in th game my husband runs for us. This character is romantically involved with my Gnome character, Vole.

please pardon quickie cg, might redo it another time, and I might mess with the sketch some more. but anyway, I’m pleased, I think I’m learning good things in my drawing course.

You might also notice that a) it’s a he b) he’s not an elf.

Last night we got the messages on our old phone that the office ladies wanted us to come get our package from the office, as it was taking up way too much space. Too much space? The only thing I’d ordered was Aimee’s comic!!!

My husband picked it up today,and oooh!

Someone sent us a featherbed mattress!!! 200 threadcount and fluffy, and sooo comfortable. Someone we don’t exactly recognize, a package sent wrapped in ‘Best Wishes’ paper, and small note that says From: Ruth and Louis. Sent to my maiden name at the apartment. Wacky! Thanks?!!

Carlo thought it was my side of the family, but a quick call to Mom and she thinks it’s His side. heh.

mmm so comfy though.

It as sent from www.fortuneoff.com, so I can’t trace return addy.