So yeah, I've moved. I'm not gonna have access to a computer on a regular basis anymore. At least not for like a year or so. You can imagine I'm not all too thrilled about it. At some point maybe I'll do an entry explaining what's going on, but I'm not really up to discussing it right now. Just to reassure people, I am okay.

Hopefully I will get to keep in touch with you guys somehow.

Take care.

Ok, I just bought a ticket for Moonlight Rising. I haven't gotten a room yet though. Anyone want to share?

Crunchy Granola (12:43:15 PM): *sigh* If I had a way to get to the Catskills I could meet ASH and Amber
FoxMmmFaith (12:45:39 PM): hee
FoxMmmFaith (12:45:41 PM): when?
Crunchy Granola (12:45:53 PM): next June
Crunchy Granola (12:46:01 PM): but the tickets are selling now and they're selling fast
Crunchy Granola (12:46:09 PM): they already sold out all the VIP tickets
FoxMmmFaith (12:46:14 PM): yowza
Crunchy Granola (12:46:32 PM): oh and some guy named James Marsters is gonna be there, but whatever
FoxMmmFaith (12:47:02 PM): wasn't he in Disturbing Behavior?
FoxMmmFaith (12:47:04 PM): *blinks innocently*

Cyndi Lauper shook my hand!

Go ahead you young'uns and mock me as much as you'd like, but this was a huge moment for me.

The woman fucking rocks. Damn she's got a set of pipes on her. And boy can she move. It was a pretty small venue, so we were so damn close. My only regret is that I didn't bring a camera. Plus I was totally crushing on her keyboardist/violinst, who struck me as dykeadelic.

Weee!

Ok, I'm waaay over-excited right now. In just about two and a half hours I'm gonna be at a Cyndi Lauper concert. Yes, I do realize that this is like twenty years past the point of relevancy for most people, but she seriously rocks my world. The first album that I owned that wasn't child-oriented was "She's So Unusual". I went as Cyndi one Hallowe'en. I just adore her.

In other news, if this election goes the way I'm afraid it's going to go, I'm thinking of becoming an expat, so I made a little poll, please take it.

Poll #71842
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 28

Where should Artemis move?

I still have to do an update explaining why I'm going to be more-or-less computerless again for the next year or so, but I'll do that later. It'll probably be friends-only.

So yeah I'm back. Sorta.

I'm gonna be moving out of my parents house pretty soon, which means I won't have internet access yet again.

Anyway I have a long ass backlog of updates but I'm not particularly motivated so they may happen pretty sporadically right now.

10,000 Maniacs -- "Like the Weather"
The color of the sky as far as I can see is coal grey.
Lift my head from the pillow and then fall again.
With a shiver in my bones just thinking about the weather.
A quiver in my lips as if I might cry.

Well by the force of will my lungs are filled and so I breathe.
Lately it seems this big bed is where I never leave.
Shiver in my bones just thinking about the weather.
Quiver in my voice as I cry,

"What a cold and rainy day. Where on earth is the sun hid away."

I hear the sound of a noon bell chime.
Now I'm far behind.
You've put in 'bout half a day
while here I lie
with a shiver in my bones just thinking about the weather.
A quiver in my lip as if I might cry,

"What a cold and rainy day. Where on earth is the sun hid away?"

Do I need someone here to scold me
or do I need someone who'll grab and pull me out of this four poster dull torpor pulling downward.
For it is such a long time since my better days.
I say my prayers nightly this will pass away.

The color of the sky is grey as I can see through the blinds.
Lift my head from the pillow and then fall again
with a shiver in my bones just thinking about the weather.
A quiver in my voice as I cry,

"What a cold and rainy day. Where on earth is the sun hid away?"
I shiver, quiver, and try to wake.

I remember being in my single in my girls' boarding school, putting on my uniform and blasting that album while everyone else was playing Ace of Base and Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. {<~~ dating myself here} That song always gave me a perverse pleasure in how upbeat it was for a song about depression.

I really wish my damn sound worked so that I could download it and listen to it. *glares at computer*

I'm really going nuts without my computer. I really want to go to Redneck, but it's a bitch trying to plan things without having easy access to everyone else.

This whole thing is such a bummer.

Grrr. Argh.

Just so you know, I'm around, but my hard drive crashed again.

Hopefully it'll be fixed soon.

Not much exciting to write about, plus the library's closing shortly.

I miss you guys.

So on Sunday, my cousin Colleen and her friend Kit came by and we went looking at bridesmaids' dresses for Col's wedding. Apparently Patchogue is like some bridal mecca or something. Seriously, there were like five bridalish stores on one block. Anyway, it really sucks that all the sample dresses are like a size ten, 'cause I couldn't try any of them on myself, which really moots the whole point. Anyway, Kit and Colleen tried them on, and we narrowed it down to a few, especially one. Here's a pic --



It'll be in some shade of light blue with a fancy name. We were then discussing how it's really not the kind of dress you can wear again. So we came up with the idea of after the wedding having a party where everyone could wear their old bridesmaids' dresses and we'd get a keg. And that's when Kit made the comment I titled this post with. Except, not me. I can't do a handstand sober, much less slightly drunk and in a formal dress.

Then Colleen came back here and we watched Gilmore Girls: Beginnings. I'd never seen it since I protested against that show loudly until Col got me hooked on it late in the first season. It was so cute and goofy and reminded me why I love all the characters so much. Even my sister watched and laughed and admitted it's actually a pretty good show.

I guess the only other "exciting" (for some value of the word) thing that happened lately was I watched the season premieres of That 70s Show and Grounded For Life. GFL was nothing special, but T70sS totally sucked me back in. Laura Prepon got rilly frickin' hot over the summer. I had an eensy little crush on her before, but now I think it's full blown.

( Spoilers for That 70s Show just in case )

And as always, Red and Kitty crack me the fuck up.

We also have xtmont as well.

And I promise my next update will actually be about my life.

We got adjrun, we got adj!

<~~~is overly proud of herself right now.

I'm not above using the lure of pretty Spike icons if it works.

Now if only the Lindsey and Xander icons I sent SNeak work, I'll be very happy.

So yeah, I slept most of the day today, but I needed it. Plus it was better than being awake and in the crappy mood I've been in lately. My cousin Colleen just called, we're doing the whole looking at bridesmaids' dresses thing tomorrow for her wedding. Yay! Shopping. Only except not. Heh at least she has decent taste and I can trust I won't be wearing tangerine or sea foam.

I've been following the Con thread at TWoP just for the updates on REDNECK and I wanted to let people know that I'll be emailing 'em all with my info as soon as I can get my parents to buy the tickets since I don't have a credit card. I have the cash so that's not the problem, my mom's just being procrastinatory about it.

Not much else to report. I don't know how much I'll be around tonight since I'm going out to my cousin's tonight rather than tomorrow, which means I have to go shower and pack. I wish I had something more exciting to report, sorry.

I got myself a paid account! I needed something to cheer me up so yeah. Now I can finally use the backlog of icons I had, mostly from Foxy, and start to make my own.

So anyway just two bits of randomness, 'cause I have to get to the dentist. --

First off, everyone's pics of Smidge and FPJ (who are utterly adorable, yes) reminded me of two pics of my favorite celebrity couple --

Look! Duckie robe!
Sigh. Can I have them all?

Also, this next part contains Buffy related bitterness and spoilers, so if either of those things are issues for you, you've been warned.

( Grr.Argh. )

Just so you guys know, I'm not completely spoiled, so please don't tell me any spoilers. I have my pimps who bring me what I want to know, thanks.

Also? Can anyone tell me how I can use custom mood icons? I'm not sure I want to change, since I do so get a kick out of my crazy little hamster with his helmet and his glasses, but if I do decide to, I'd like to know. Thanks!

Crap the links didn't work. Here's a link to the full page, it should work. Aly and Alexis

So earlier tonight I went into TWoP to find a post in the Big Love thread to show someone, and I noticed that the post number in that thread was exactly 1013. I think fox1013 said it best:

Alexia Eve (12:24:53 AM): golly. That's ironic
Alexia Eve (12:24:54 AM): *cough*

It's funny, 'cause earlier tonight I wondered if I'd still be ok in chats after my exit this afternoon, but here I am sitting in chat, writing an add-a-sentence round robin badfic with raskazzptitsa, nongenius, and reginapinguina. So things are pretty much the status quo.

Also? This conversation amused me --

( On third person sheep )

I'm still finding it a little weird to not be checking the boards every so often. I guess I'm gonna hafta totally revamp my online schedule, huh?

So yeah, I wrote a short rambly entry that was going nowhere and my father lost it. He doesn't understand the concept of opening a new browser window, ::sigh:: Plus, he's not really sober so it's not worth explaining.

Anyway, so yeah, I posted my goodbye post to TWoP. It was almost an afterthought, a "hey wait up!" post after brooding_soul posted his. I guess I was just inspired. I don't regret the decision, I'm disppointed that I had to make it in the first place, but I can live with it.

It gives me more time to deal with all the stuff I've been putting off and avoiding anyway. I'm getting somewhat better with the mood swings, no random crying fits lately. However, I still need to sleep better and get out of the house more. I also need to find the energy to clean. Maybe if the upstairs a/c would work and it wasn't so damn hot.

I dunno, I'm just sorta here right now, if you get what I mean. Also? Somedays I wish that my family would all just disappear. ::sigh::

I was just watching The Princess Bride and I think that sums up how I feel.

I once said to Sivi? Abby? somebody? that if they banned Fox, I was gone, well I guess I'll have to follow through on a promise I never thought I'd have to keep.

It's been real y'all.

I don't know why, but this cracked me the hell up.

"I'm eating this banana! Lunchtime be damned!" -- Willow (the human one) in "Doppelgangland"

In other news, I think I'm reverting to five years old. I suddenly have the urge to dig out all my stuffed animals and arrange them around the room. Plotski, of course, will get the spot of honor on the bottom of the bed, if I'm a Gramma, so's she. Then there's the giraffe crew, (which is sadly lacking and needs much work), and of course the teddy bears -- I haven't seen Peppermint in years, I think my mom put her up in the attic with god knows who else. Oh! And the Beavers, how could I forget about the beavers? And of course Bear and Ojo from Bear in the Big Blue House. And yes, I have a Barney -- shut.up. And, also my Cabbage Patch Kids, especially Kori Florida, don't ask that's the name that came on her Birth Certificate. Wow I seriously need to find all these guys again.

Great, my mother just came home. Somedays I wish I were a hermit.

Yeah so suddenly I'm in the mood to update a lot.

Not that anything exciting's happening or anything, 'cause it's not. Let's see --

As some of you may know, my dog is sixteen years old, which means he doesn't have much bladder control. I, on the other hand, have neither coordination or a good grasp of my surroundings. Cue me slipping on the puddle in the hall.

I was in my sister's room getting something and noticed that her Interactive Blue (from Blue's Clues) and her Bumblebee Pooh were posed really adorably, with Pooh sitting on a pile of books and Blue's legs perched on the top of the pile and them looking at each other. I need to finish off the roll of film from ComInvCon, so I figured I'd take a picture. (Bear with me, this story has a point, really.) Chocolate Moose (her brown moose stuffie) was laying on the floor, so I picked him up and posed him on the bed and took a photo of him too, just for abby20.

Speaking of chocolate, I just found the Aero bar that somebody (IOU maybe?) brought as swag for ComInvCon. Just what I needed. Mmm, chocolate.

	You are Kermit! Though you're technically the star, you're pretty mellow and don't mind letting others share the spotlight. You are also something of a dreamer.
Take the What Muppet Are You? Quiz!

Awww, I got Kermie! He's in my Top Five favorite Muppet list so yay!

Crunchy Granola (7:07:37 AM): we can discuss my scary new disturbing crush instead
thememoriesfire (7:07:41 AM): Heeee.
thememoriesfire (7:07:43 AM): Oh god.
thememoriesfire (7:07:46 AM): Do I really want to know?
Crunchy Granola (7:08:05 AM): probably not, *I* was afraid when I realized it
thememoriesfire (7:08:15 AM): Okay is this a celebrity crush?
Crunchy Granola (7:08:42 AM): yeah of course, god I haven't spent time with anyone IRL outside of my family for the past week
thememoriesfire (7:08:51 AM): Heee.
Crunchy Granola (7:09:52 AM): anyway you want me to just come out with it?
Crunchy Granola (7:10:03 AM): ::sigh::
Crunchy Granola (7:10:17 AM): Pink, I can't help it, she's just so *trashy*
thememoriesfire (7:10:26 AM): Hee.
thememoriesfire (7:10:28 AM): I love Pink!
thememoriesfire (7:10:29 AM): Dude.
Crunchy Granola (7:10:32 AM): it's not a big one, barely even rates on the scale
thememoriesfire (7:10:33 AM): That's nothing to be ashamed about.
Crunchy Granola (7:10:35 AM): really?!
Crunchy Granola (7:10:37 AM): weee!~
thememoriesfire (7:10:39 AM): She totally gets me going.
thememoriesfire (7:10:39 AM): Hee.
Crunchy Granola (7:10:45 AM): cos Abs made me feel like I was nuts
thememoriesfire (7:10:54 AM): What?
Crunchy Granola (7:10:56 AM): and she was *convinced* you wouldn't back me up on it
thememoriesfire (7:10:57 AM): *smacks Abs*
thememoriesfire (7:11:00 AM): Hee.
thememoriesfire (7:11:01 AM): Aww.
Crunchy Granola (7:11:27 AM): Abby1730 (11:19:51 PM): Even Sivi would smack you for this one, dude.
Crunchy Granola (7:11:49 AM): oh the irony
thememoriesfire (7:11:56 AM): Hee.
thememoriesfire (7:11:57 AM): Awww.

So there!

Also, I came home to new channels on my digital cable Musicchoice. We now have Bluegrass and New Wave. Squeeeee!