bunnies with catchup.

My lord, what a week. I need to make a bigger catchup post at some point and I promised to elaborate on why the red and white = signs all over facebook and twitter a few days back made me hulk out with rage instead of being all happy YAY SOLIDARITY WHEE like it supposedly should have, but things have been kinda accelerating in the fucked up department all week and so... behind on posting. But I will say the following:

• A happy and blessed Easter, Passover, full moon, Spring, whatever y'all observe.
  
  
• I passed the halfway mark on the Tetris dance on Friday. Pictures and more elaborate yay bead post to follow.
  
  
• Hospitals remain dull and nervewracking places. (I'm fine, I was visiting.)
  
  
• Love and squee is amidst life suddenly going chaotic, your mother-in-law makes sure to tell you that the Easter bunny brought you a carrot cake. Damn.
  
  
• In TV news...
  
  • Doctor Who was pleasantly devoid of suck. Oh sure, it had to Moffat a little here and there, but thankfully it was merely an eye-rolling amount of Moffatting, not a "FUCK THIS SHOW" amount.
    
  • GAMMATRONS TONIGHT NNNNNNNNNNGGGGFFFFFFF WINTER IS HERE. No seriously, it is. New England is in some strong denial about the officialness of Spring. But still, ridiculously excited for the new season.
    
  • Almost caught completely up with Lost Girl and it still fills me with delightfully frothy silly squee even if it stretches my suspension of disbelief to snapping point.
  
  
• The plastics are down and there are cats in our windowsills again. Also cell23 has been walking Ash. Yes, he's been walking the cat. Think about this. Ash's transition into a small overly fluffy dog continues.
  
  
• head58 has lent me the complete scores for The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Awyiss, I have something new to amuse me during data entry. I've been meaning to musically go through the original Star Wars trilogy (and maybe the score to The Phantom Menace, one of the few redeeming qualities of that film) because the scores are practically beasts unto themselves, and I am always kind of blown away by John Williams' work, his fetishistic worship for French horn and low brass aside. Plus I need to amass things to listen to at work when my entire music collection bores me to tears. May take up an audiobook habit. (Taking recommendations for that, btw.)

That's honestly about all I've got in the life of Andee. At least the public/nonpolitical post bits.

Half done is well begun? No wait...

Long stretches of time to kill hanging around a hospital is a pretty prime environment for beadwork. I got a LOT done on this, which is good because I've pretty much quit working on it during the week - too much going on after work. In fact I may well have overdone it - my eyes and head hurt, and between playing the big bells this morning and thi,s my hands, wrists and shoulders are kinda having hissies as well. Oops. Oh well.

Hopefully after I recover from this little bit of bead OD maybe I can find a way to get back to maybe doing one line a day so I can finish this thing within a reasonable time frame and yet not kill myself in the process. :/ the nice part about the latter half of this project is that there's very little in the way of dead spaces or single color deserts from here on out; the bad part about that is that frequent changes of color mean it takes a little longer to finish a line. You win some you lose some.

I apologize for the crappy iPad picture, I haven't gotten around to charging the Hatemonger since the baby lovefest last Sunday.



We have a little dancer, mid jump! At least the top half of him. And we have LINES. I might start trying to do this every day because I'm at bits of the pattern that make me go YAY again. Really any time I get to do one of the little musician/dancer bits, I kind of squee.

Obligatory "where we're at" part:

13290 / 25500 words. 52% done!

Sooo halfway and then some. Whee.