pira

I am waiting for a number of photographs to print up, and I will then use them to make note cards that will be end-of-the-year gifts for my son's school teachers (2).

That is a HAVE to do job....which will then be followed by the horrid task of re-organizing the contents of my pc/art area surroundings...and most importantly get rid of the catpee-saturated rug that my very large desk is sitting on. It's out of control, it smells and I can't function, let alone create.

I have been completely frozen by this overwhelming mess that surrounds me in this household as of late ~ not really knowing what way to turn or where to start cleaning up. The feeling of course is compounded by the fact that what few surfaces I do manage to clear are promptly cluttered within hours ...which only leads to a growing level of exasperation, followed by utter depression and me sitting at the pc doing absolutely nothing at all.

The above is picture of the top of a cabinet in the livingroom I store DVDs in. It's pretty well the ONLY spot in the house I have complete control over and one daughter is amazed at how I keep changing the ...er...decor on it.

I will suddenly jump up from the couch and rearrange whatever is on top of it or remove the objects and put something else there....

I suspect it's my anxiety leaking out my pores ~ I spontaniously need to control a single square foot of the household that will stay exactly like I leave it until I do it again...and again...and again.

(o__(o....this by the way is a set of japanese obi weaving bobbins & obi.


*notes lack of zurping-sound ~ printer has stopped*

Okay gotta go crop those photos and stick them down. That's the last excuse...then I have to deal with this domestic nightmare before they are forced to commit me.

Okay so the pc has been running slower lately. It's not a spring chicken and I've been remiss at cleaning up the place (scans aside).

I cleared off the desktop ~ of all the yaoi-zips that had collected there. (yes I am talking about your contribution to my woes tameiki)

Dumped all the the unzipped ones that I wasn't going to rush back to re-read anytime soon.

Figuring my artfiles might be part of the problem, I check their size and no...they are more than reasonable, even for my dumbass way of handling Macromedia.

I look at the photo files ~ the same. Big, but not stupid big.

THEN I check my *SCANS* file. The one with EVERY TIFF OF EVERYTHING I'VE EVER SCANNED EVAH on this pc....as in SINCE APRIL 2005.

*0__o...!!!

After I dumped the lot of them ~ I reclaimed 40 GIGS.

*Gotta cut back on the stupid juice juuuuuust a little bit*

I think I'll go defrag the system now...*face in hands*

An email this morning, informed me that my J-doll had been shipped.

*points to the green-eyed, blond-tressed girl*

Um...while she doesn't begin to approach the price range, nor customizable nature that defines the universe of Dolfies and their ilk...she is to my eye, utterly precious.

*BLARG...I can't believe I actually said the p-word*

Xan has been laughing her ass-off over this for weeks now...and only stopped when I dropped a D-BOMB on her....a.k.a. the url of a *MOST* desirable bishonen Dolfie-type of figure. The sound of whimpering at her end of the phone assured me that I wasn't alone in my madness ...and yes, it CAN hit that hard...hence, Missy Green-eyes was a desperate stopgap measure on my part to prevent traumatic hemorraging of the pocketbook before I leave for Kyoto (in 53 days...squee)

Naturally finding accessories and items to fill her environment with have been added to my Kyoto-shopping list. I will be keeping a close eyeout for minature Kyodai and/or Tansu, as well as 1:6 Tatami and folding screens. All preferably in a much lower price range...hopefully at the flea markets we'll be visiting.

And yes...I have already scrounged up a book (not from ebay but BK1) of patterns for traditional Japanese clothing for this size of doll. Of course you're not surprised...not really...considering the mountains of silk I'm hording.

....*head in hands*

If it wasn't all so much fun I'd have myself committed.

Have started to print up my cards now....and while doing so made up my mailing list which currently sits at 32.

*0__o....I know I'm missing some names on this thing.....

None the less...as I am printing these things out on the highest dpi I can on the photographic paper.... the conclusion I am drawing....

(.__(.

....is that I should have been printing these things out while I was willy-nilly poinking around the internets today.

This is going to take ages.

*smacks head*

*0__o...

I stood on the scale this morning and was a bit preturbed. I hadn't been particularly hungry this week due to the cold, but I had been eating so I didn't think the weight was going to actually drop and I am now on the edge.

So as I've dragged my ass in from round 3 of shovelling it has occured to why today is going to suck....there is no way in HADES I can ingest more calories than I burn. Nuh-uh.

*note to self: make butterladen xmas cookies and eat them*

(.__(.

....better yet, make the dough for those Finnish Xmas gingerpepper cookies. I swore I wouldn't make them again because I tend to snack on the dough for weeks out of the fridge instead of actually making the cookies. *cough*

SAY....does anyone else around here do that? Eat cookie dough?

If so...what kind? I'm horrible for that when it comes to certain things. In fact I'd rather eat banana bread batter than the banana bread and oatmeal cookie dough instead of the final product.