Ramblings of the Reymonkey

I meant to post this a few days back, since I dreamed it I think Saturday night? For the record, I haven't watched all that much 30 Rock...

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I think the laugh track woke me up groaning... I rarely dream about TV, but every now and again my brain tries to concoct a whole episode for me to watch in my sleep, maybe because it thinks I don't spend enough time watching TV during the week? We turn the TV on maybe once a week, seriously. It's just not worth it. I watch more TV at the pretty girl's parent's house, because they have cable, although I usually try to find Mythbusters there.

Aaanyways! I apologize to anyone who just read the above dream. If you want something that might actually be funny, this morning somebody in the Endless Forest community linked this and I'd be happy to see other people's stuff, if just to erase the dream from my mind. That zipper... oh god.

( I'll try a drabble with Dirk for the lulz... )

Hunh. Must've been an LOL. Dirk should know better than to eat things left lying around the Nexus.

Here's an RP meme which I want all my friends to do so we can be cool kids too.
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The big joint Valentine's Day gift thing was to go see Coraline 3D, which I was beginning to fear we'd have to just skip completely, which is a terrible thing to think when you've been looking forward to the movie for over a year. It was awesome. I was a little worried, since the movie includes a character that doesn't exist in the book, and despite that, it still followed the book pretty closely. I can't even figure out how that's possible, but go figure! We'll have to buy it on DVD someday. Now I'm going to start looking forward to The Graveyard Book movie, which should give me a couple years of expectation.

TODAY IS MONSTER DAY! Obey the Tod. I'm probably just doing random catch-up drawing today, because I'm not sure if I'm any good at drawing monsters, but there are lots of people doing Monster Day commissions. If you want some monsters, and have a little cash, and don't draw yourself, visit:
Neogreen
Skulldog
and Purpurealuna

Apparently for those of real connections instead of sad dialup, there is Monster Day Radio which, despite the thing about October on there, is apparently running today.

Of course we owe the existence of Monster Day to ninjahijinx!

I think we're gonna do Tremors marathon tonight. We also have this amazing find of a book called 'Monsters' and written by Vincent Price and his son. No lie. It was a find at the local pawn shop/used bookstore we love.

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Yeeeeagh sorry about that guys, I was devoured by the holidays, but to start the post is a meme because I think I should do this one every year.

( You know the drill, right? )
So yeah, I'd say between job loss and art, the year evens out to just be okay, but that's really all I ask for right now.

So to catch up. Christmas! I was going to post the big news and never did. I was going to point out that this year, as an early Christmas gift, I got a car. Now before you get excited, this would be the same car I've been driving for the past three years, the 1984 Chevy not-as-big-a-boat-as-everyone-thinks-it-is. But hey, with the reworked transmission and all, it should go a few more years. This was, sadly, inspired by the accident this past fall. The insurance suddenly claimed they were surprised the car was being driven by someone other than the person who owned it and had the insurance and all, despite the fact he's been very, very up front about it from day one, to the point of asking them if it was okay and telling them I had it. Whatever, insurance and car are now both in my name, and I did not pay a cent for it. That's a pretty major gift, and I'm grateful for it.
To amplify this extreme generosity, which comes from Bridgie's dad, he has just recently come into some inheritance money. I don't know how much, but this man is so awesome, that he is paying our rent this month, and buying us the entirety of Fraggle Rock on DVD. One practical gift and one that's just fun and awesome, I guess. This man in a saint. Even if I am never allowed to mention the nature of my relationship with Bridgie in his presence, he remains the most amazing father-in-law I could hope for.

I got other good stuff for Christmas, money's tight of course, but we managed to make things look pretty full under the tree anyway. I still owe some gift art, which I'm working on. I got lots of cool books, including finally Neverwhere. I've had the DVD for years and years, and saw it way back when it premiered on TV in the U.S. over a decade ago, but never read the book. The recent C&V in the Nexus made me want to. I'm glad I have it, there's a lot of nice details and insight to the characters. I kind of miss the book opening, and the way it ties in to the end, and it's a shame that's just chopped away from the TV version. I got an awesome pop-up art book thing I'm at a loss to describe, but it's called Botticelli's Bed & Breakfast by Jan Pienkowski, and I opened it and sat there pointing out most of the pieces of art before finding there was a little guide to tell the non-art majors what they all are, and then being prodded to get on with opening presents. We've also gone to see the garden lights about three or four times, got Nutcracker ticekts at the last minute and saw that, and visited Bryan park a lot, and RPed a lot, all because Bridgie's on vacation. I feel like the vacation is almost a gift, because I miss her more now that I'm out of work and home without her so much.
Our New Year's Eve was pretty uneventful, and Bridgie goes back to work tomorrow, so I feel like things are winding down. Hopefully I won't be too down tomorrow, when we get shoved back into the work year and all. Hopefully somebody good will hire me soon.

I hope everybody's had a good Christmas/Hannukkah/Kwanzaa/Feast of St. Stephen/Solstice/whatever, and I wish you all the best of things for the new year!

We vote at an elementary school, in the gym. As of 6:30 this morning, the line wrapped, as near as I could tell, around the outside of the gym and back to then loop around the interior walls of a massive room next to the gym.
I was only acting as a driver, because I have to leave at 7:30 to do kidsitting. I can't get to the polls until around 1:00PM and when I saw the line I figured no way would I make that in time. It was almost 7:00 by the time I'd circled the block to find parking. I don't find it consoling that my puppeteer friends, who share my political views, will be in the same boat. Only, y'know, with kids to complicate the day.

Yurgh.

So! You see me in the back of a police cruiser. What was I arrested for?

Got up earlier than usual this morning to drive Bridgie in to work, but before that I was having a dream on crack. After some analysis, the overall dream isn't too crackmonkeyish, but there's one specific glaring feature that makes me go bzuh.

( Starts out mundane... )
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( There! )
Go ahead, try and tell me that wasn't weird.

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Anyway, Mel and her mom are coming... tomorrow? Oh geez. And I have commissions I should really be working on, and what am I doing dinking around online?

I also called the VCU Dental school, and I shouldn't have worried about it conflicting with jury duty. Because it is a Dental school, and the students need to get settled in to the fall semester, their earliest available appointment is Nov. 5th. Crap. I scheduled it anyway. I hope I don't get too desperate before then.

Busy weekend... I feel like a regular socialite, with everyone calling me on the phone with sympathy. I got emls from some of my coworkers of OMG you're gone we'll miss you, and a coworker-turned-buddy called me and offered resume help and all. Thank you to everyone being supportive. I really am surprisingly okay. Just... moving on.
We finally got a new computer chair, that is to say an actual computer chair, with the swivelly and the going up and down bits and maybe certain people will stop complaining about being too tall for the chair when in front of the comp now.
Finished the commission for Mephron, of his fantastic character Azure Blade. You can find character info on his LJ here.
Lots of talking on the phone.

From dragonfare

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)

And I liked the idea that you could strikethrough the books that you hated, so I did.
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She and I got into talking over it, because we're not sure what the criteria are. There are so many classics and classic authors completely missing from the list, and then this clearly isn't the top most read or they wouldn't be complaining so many people haven't read them...

Anyway, today is for working on the resume, I'm too lazy to find the tilde for an LJ entry, and I have today left to finish my MGC entry, so we'll see if that happens.
The commission information is still all valid and go and feel free to keep pointing people to that! Thank you to everyone who has! It sounds like I've gotten more work in the 'other' field of commissions, and that's perfectly cool too. I've had jobhunts that lasted long enough to drain my savings before, and I'm remarkably low on savings this time, since the job ended unexpectedly. Income during this time will keep me from flailing at you all going OMG we can't pay the bills. You are all wonderful people for sympathy and art requests.
Have a good Monday!

I haven't posted partly because I don't like to spill angst all over this journal. I've been stressed, and a large reason has been financial. I thought I knew how much money I had in the bank, paid off my Sprint bill that was past due, and made a couple other minor purchases (lunch, gas for the car). The next thing I knew I was overdrawn, and with the overdraft fees I was almost $150 in debt to the bank. I'm not financially savy or numbers savy, I have a math disability, so I was beating myself up for thinking I had more money than I did and getting myself into trouble. My tax refunds came through and saved my ass, but still.
This morning the chick that does payroll at work informed me that the bank had taken the last paycheck I deposited, and handed it straight back to the issuer. They deposited my entire paycheck to my employer.
WTF?
If I'd had my paycheck, I would've had the money I counted on being there, and never been overdrawn.
The good news is that my coworker who does payroll must've said the right things. They sent an employee physically down to the store (we're in the same shopping center) with all the carbon copies of paperwork for the corrections. I get my paycheck back, and my overdraft fees.

I should probably take it as some kind of sign that I was so willing to beat myself up and assume the mistake was mine. Aaanyway.
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Working on arts. Rly.

Hunh. Well this is interesting. Somebody re to it please? Anybody?

Check my fandoms, my favorite characters, the pairings I like the most, my kinks, my fictional crushes, anything. Now, in a friendly and possibly teasing way, point out the obvious and not so obvious trends or fetishes you see in my tastes. Maybe I'm nuts for all vampire stories, or have a thing for men in glasses, or I'm fond of kick-ass women, or scary-ass geeks. Let's point out all of those you've noticed I tend to squee about during our friendship.

Interest list ctrl+c+v for the lazy:
alto sax, animatronics, anime, art, art history, bellingham, blues, blues brothers, books, brian froud, canti, celtic music, celtic stuff, coffee, comics, courtney crumrin, cowboy bebop, creativity, cthulu, cyberpunk, dark chocolate, dave mckean, dead kennedys, deviantart, dice, dirk gently, discworld, douglas adams, drawing, dreams, fantasy, flcl, gargoyles, geology, gir, gorillaz, gurps, harry potter, highlander, hitchhiker's guide, html, indigo girls, information society, invader zim, jazz, jeff greer band, jim henson, johnny lang, labyrinth, mechanical pencils, mirrormask, mst3k, muppets, music, mythology, neil gaiman, nostalgia, ocean, open-mindedness, paul kidby, pirates, poison elves, prismacolors, punk, puppetry, puppets, queen, reading, red dwarf, role-play, rowlf the dog, rpg, sam vimes, sandman, sci-fi, seal, singing, slayers, solitude, stan getz, sting, stones, stop-motion animation, stories, storyteller, swing, terry pratchett, the clash, the dark crystal, the dreaming, the endless, the vandals, they might be giants, tim burton, toys, ursula vernon, william gibson, wind, words, world creation, wylde nept.