Srsly.

GLEE.

James passed his evaluation thinger test at work. Which means that:

1) He gets a raise (we need this like, whoa)

2) Is really as awesome as I tell everyone he is at his job.

WHY?

It was "sprung" on him. Seriously, it wasn't supposed to be for a month or more longer yet that he got that particular test. Maybe 6 more months. But, he's so unbelievably AWESOME at what he does, that apparently they were like "yeeah, let's test this dude NOW".

Granted, it was prolly a push from his own store manager, whom THANK GODS apparently sees how awesome James is. FINALLY, this is a good thing.

So yeah, lack of preparation, a few things against him insomuch as also sort of lack of being able to prepare for longer (as in, he was told on Sunday afternoon that his test would take place on this last Wednesday), and other infringing factors ... and he still kicked ass.

See? I don't just boast about my husband because *I* think he's cool. He really is. ;) And now other people will have to know it tooooooo ...

Ha.

Now, I celebrate by going to get tacos for us to eat and then us going to see Harry Potter. ^^

Wha? It's hilarious :D

Things I would like to do today include:

1) Finish sorting Space Marine bitz
2) Sort my file box thang
3) Work on converting Eldar Guardians to Eldar Wraithguard (one done, 9 to go)
4) Take pictures of more things to ebay (cleaning out old rpg/wargaming stuff, FTW!)

Better get started, sez I. :) I like days off. My chance to be productive! ^^

See Icon. ;) That'd be Callie, determined to get your fudz.

I am going to make it a priority to think more positive. More positive energy, less complaining. It sounds difficult, doesn't it? It will be. It's so much easier to complain about the annoying things than talk about the things that are good.

Because, really, there's always good.

For those of you that may have heard this before from others and you're thinking "Yeah right, others always say that and nothing happens" ... well, I'm going to make it work. Why? James and I have managed to get into a very crappy financial situation, and even as much as we wish it weren't our fault, well, it's the choices you make isn't it?

According to "The Secret", if you always concentrate on the negative, more negative comes to you. I suppose that makes sense, especially if you think of the fact that all the positive energy is supposed to be healing, good, energy, why on earth would you want negative?

So, why not think of the positive instead? After all, just thinking about how much money you don't have, and how difficult it is to do certain things sure doesn't fix em. You just get the instant gratitude of everyone going "awww, I sympathize!" when you bitch about it.

Right.

It sounds cheesy and newagey. I'm the first person that'll say "riiiight, that sounds like a bunch of bullcrap"

But. There's another way to look at it:

Logic tells us that the only way that you can accomplish things is by doing. You can't sit around and simply talk about how it might not work or how it could work. You either try to do something about it, or you don't. Constant bitching really doesn't get much accomplished except for wasting time.

And I hate wasting time that I could be spending doing something COOL.

So, if you don't accomplish anything by NOT doing anything about it . . . then why even bother complaining about it at all? In all honesty all you're doing is showcasing the fact that you're sitting on your arse doing nothing about it.

There are many things that we complain about that are outside of our sphere of influence. I actually got *that* from a management book I was reading when I was trying to better "manage" at my old job. If it's outside of your sphere of influence, then why complain about it? If there's nothing you can do about the economy yourself - well, we know it sucks so why constantly complain? If there's nothing I can do about certain people's behavior at my job, even though I've done what I am supposed to, then what does complaining get you? No one likes to hang out with a complainer. Eventually people get tired of listening to your bitchfest.

I know. I've had that happen to me.

So, anyhow, back on track.

I'm definitely NOT saying that all of a sudden everything's sunshine and pretty butterflies. That would be silliness because there are clouds in the sky on occasion and butterflies don't come out in the rain. ;)

And no, I'm not all of a sudden going to go "hey everything's always AWESOME" because, well, y'know it's not, and sometimes there's nothing you can do about it.

However. It's FREE to stop thinking of the negative. It costs me NOTHING to simply turn my thoughts towards productive things; like how I'm going to pare down my old RPG book collection by selling some off on ebay, like the paint scheme for my Eldar Dire Avengers, like the fact that I get to come home and post on my forum rpg. Stuff like that is much better to think about than the fact that life sucks, then you die.

I mean just think about it: would you rather think of happy things or sad things? I'd rather think of happy things. Less stressful, less gloomy and definitely more fun. I enjoy coming up with army lists for the armies I play in my head. And thinking of all the ways I can destroy my opponents with em ;) hehe.

That doesn't mean of course, that you neglect the things you have to think about. We all have to pay bills. We all have to deal with idiots. But instead of going "aw, man, it really sucks that I have to pay the Comcast bill" I could just say "Yup, gotta pay the bill." and make sure that you get the bill in when it's due. Or, if you can't, no need to worry about it - you simply either face the consequence of paying it late (late fees or disconnection if it's been long enough) or heck, call them and see if they'll do an extension. You'd be surprised, for example, medical bills, for the most part, as long as you let them know you need to make payments, they're fine with it. They'd rather get $20 a month on that $400 emergency bill than have to send it to collections and futz with all that annoyance. I'm having to do that now, and they were very awesome about it, I simply spoke to billing, explained my situation, and there we go, payment plan set up.

So. In summary:

1) I resolve to think in a more positive outlook
2) I resolve to do less complaining, especially about things out of my control
3) I resolve to attempt to fix problems rather than simply let them pile up out of control, if I CAN do something about them.
4) I resolve to be a less stressed, more pleasant person.

It really can't hurt to try. I feel better already. :)

On ze summer solstice, I were born, y'all. So, yesterday was "me" day 'cause it were me birfday! :D

It was good! James had to work but that's ok, I hung out at the store and put together my new 40k army - starting with 2 boxes of Dire Avengers and a Farseer and his warlock retinue. Yes, Eldar (Space elves, essentially). I'm a typical girl. :D But that was James' birfday prezent for me so YAY.

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A friend of ours also came out to the store to work on her Dark Elves and hung out all day to entertain me. ^^ James and I made her come get Sazzio's pizza with us for lunch, and we had flatbread BBQ Chicken pizza and a pizza that has lots of cheese on it. :D Woo, and I have leftovers!

THEN, I got to go home and have margaritas for dinner. Ok, I had food too, but mostly margaritas. Though my attempt at crushing ice to make the "slushy" type of iced margarita was a failure but oh well. ^^ I don't drink much at all, but margaritas are my weakness that I generally treat myself on special occasions.

So, twas fun. :D Got a grand total of around $175 from accumulated relatives sending me monies .. which is good since I'll likely need to use some of that to make sure James and I stay on budget for the next week and a half. *shrug* Eh, it happens. Maybe I'll have enough to get myself a new phone that I DESPERATELY need (Honestly, my cell phone is about ready to kick the bucket. How it still works, I have NO IDEA) after I make sure everything works out money wise. James has a dr's appt tomorrow so I will wait til after that.

Yup.

I'm trying to update this thing again for all y'all that I barely talk to but still read about my life. Whee! :D

I should go do a "friends cut" for the people that I don't talk to / am not really interested in any longer. But that seems mean so I won't. *shrug*

At any rate, today is a day off for me and James, now that he's back employed, is at work. Meaning of course, I can get things done. ;P Now, I can get things done while he's here too but not things that would disrupt what he's doing. Which is what I'm doing now; completely rearranging my desk. Which includes unplugging things and moving stuff around which should surely annoy someone else that was using the interwebz or watching tv or whatallnot. Since all that stuff's on the same wall / outlet / power strip.

I'm trying to minimize my chaos. I think it'll help give me a more peaceful mind. That and it will make James happier, I know I annoy him with my often chaotic looking setup . . . *I* know where everything is, and it's really not as bad as it looks but for him, he's the type of minimalist mindset where he doesn't see why I have all this crap on my desk, and why it's necessary.

However, I've come to admit that perhaps, yes, not ALL of this stuff is needed here, on my desk where I spend my time on the internetz. So, I adapt.

For your amusement, I may post a picture later. ^^

Srsly. I don't use this journal enough. I'm not really that interesting.

However.

Entertaining thing I hear directed at me at work today:

Upon having a random conversation about languages, I mention to the coworker I was having the convo with that I have no desire to learn another language. I mean, hey, I know my limitations, and learning another language to me, just doesn't appeal. *shrug* Granted, yes, that means there are parts of the world I can't go to, and I can't be a translator. Damn. Really. It's like me not wanting to learn to bungee jump. Or skydive. I have no desire to do either.

Another coworker in passing states "That's ignorant"

O.o

Wtf-evar.

So basically I'm ignorant because I don't have a desire to do something that's likely not necessary for me so long as I avoid certain things. Just because other people in other countries are multi-lingual does not mean I have to be. After all, I'm no slave, I'm not tied to anyone else's idea of things. I make my own choices.

And just to note: saying I have no desire to do something doesn't mean that, if, in some unforseeable future where I inexplicably get dumped on my ass in another country where they speak Krypton and I'm forced to figure it out . . . I would. I'd be displeased about it, but if it were that or starve, I totally have self preservation.

But someone's not "ignorant" because they choose not to want to do something. People that come into the store my husband works at (oh btw YAY he's back employed now!) to look around and then decide they don't want to play any of the games that they sell aren't ignorant ... they're simply choosing. They choose to not want to play the games. Big ol' deal. Next card please.

Srsly. Why must people make comments like that? I don't get it. Neither do the eeps.

Eeep. ^^

*rolls in*

So, went to Baltimore's Games Day (A Games Workshop convention - Warhammer, 40k, etc) this last Saturday. First time I'd ever been.

I was underwhelmed. From all accounts from various people that I know that told me HOW COOL it was and HOW MANY GIVEAWAYS AND EVENTS they have ... I was non impressed. First of all, the larger hall that they got this year was large, but not well filled. Strange that. Also, the only "giveaways" I really saw were the door prizes, a few random tickets that you could enter in drawings for buying things from their store, and a couple of people that we knew that got lucky talking to a couple of promoter dudes. Wooo. Seriously. From last year, it was told that I should expect random people just giving away boxes of stuff and discounted merchandise. Nope.

I did enjoy looking at the Golden Demon entries, and the armies people had brought for the best army contest and whatall. Didn't play any of the games simply because I wasn't *too* interested, and I wasn't at all interested in the "make and take" scenery (it was a 40k building they were giving you to make and I'm disinterested in scifi ruins as I already have some) or the "make and take" conversions/putting together lil dudes (again, looked mostly 40k / boring random figs). Granted the "make and take" things are where you get some free stuffs, but I'm not so much interested in 40k / boring figs, so sue me. :P

James and I did pick up "Exterminatus" - a 40k trade comic about Black Templars, a box of Epic 40k Imperial Guard for his new "6mm miniature kick" (cheaper only because we didn't have to pay shipping ^^) [By the way, his blog on that is here: http://6mmjourneys.blogspot.com/] and I picked up a discounted Warhammer book about high elves by Graham McNeill called "Defenders of Ulthuan". The book has mention of Prince Imrik. That means I had to get it. (For those of you that have no idea, he's a high elf prince that rides a really bitchin' dragon. Really. Cool guy :P ) The other cool thing was that Mr. McNeill was there, signing things, so I got him to sign the book and he assured me that Imrik will be very prominent in the continuation of the story in the next book. YAY. :)

We were there perhaps 4-5 hours, mostly wandering around and talking to people. *shrug* I didn't mind so much and James got to talk to / see some people he hasn't for a bit so it's all good. Just underwhelming.

Along with that, however, I have a new goal. Apparently, James seems to think that both Melissa (friend of ours who plays Dark elves lol) and I can paint up Golden Demon entries for next year. He says it's "easy". Y'know, it's just a competition where the best painters evar come and compete. Silly me for thinking it should be so simple. However, that's fine, I'll just paint up my favorite High Elf character. That's right; Prince Imrik. HA :P

And I'm going to convert him so that the dragon's going to be flying around a mountain shooting a fireball and trailing flames and ... .it should be neat. ;) I have a year, people. :P

Kay. That's it. I go be rather boring now.

For serious, I've not been updating this. One of the reasons of course, is because of my hubby, I now have a facebook. *fails* Why did I need a facebook? He uses it, not his own live journal and apparently I succumb to peer pressure. Dunno. Not that I update facebook much EITHER, 'cept to take silly quizzes and comment on James' and some other friends' entries ... but yeah.

At any rate. New job = kick ass. Better by loads than old job. Seriously. These people, I even LIKE. They're funny and amiable for the most part and I get along with several of them already. AND a 15 minute commute is far better than my hour and a half! :D

Yesh. The only thing I'm not sure of is the working evenings thing. My shifts are usually 11-7pm or 1-close (which is around 8). Meh, at least I get to sleep in late ^^

That really is all :D

Seriously. I've had this cold now for three days running. Or rather, this is day four. What the heck? If it lasts much longer I'm going to the doctor before I come down with anything crappy. x.x

The good thing is, today I can breathe a bit better out of my nose. The bad thing is I keep coughing, which makes me sound like an emphysematic smoker or some crap. Bleh.

Annnnd. I have an interview today. *sigh* May need to get James to run to the store for some *better* cold meds x.x Meh. I hate being sick!!

Callie is seriously trying to attack Sunfire when Sunfire gets aggrivated about us looking at her wound. Sunfire has a self-inflicted lick wound on her hind area on the leg and she's the type of cat that screams like a banshee when you try to restrain her to look at *anything*. Yes, she's a bad patient. lol. At any rate, we're trying to get it looked at so I can get it cleaned up and perhaps some antibiotic ointment and out of nowhere, Callie comes LEAPING round to attack her face. O.o What the heck? It's like she's offended that Sunfire might be giving us a hard time to look at her or something, she's not attacking *us* she's attacking Sunfire, like she's going "Beeotch, quit being so whiny!"

O.o I've never seen a cat do that before. Now we know we have to put Callie away if we're going to do anything with Sunfire. I've xanaxed her at the moment and got some pain meds into her so hopefully I can reassess later. Yes, I plan on taking her into work with me, but I can't do that at the moment 'cause it's Sunday and as it's *not* an emergency I'm not going to subject stressed out Sunfire to a car ride + unfamiliar place. Oi oi. Good thing I keep a semi-medicine cabinet at home for the cats. ;)

Geez. O.o

Was incredibly fun. James and I brought our High Elves to vs. a newly found friend's Dark Elves - we were laying seige to the dark elf castle of the ice dragon. Very very very entertaining, and we had a lot of fun! Luckily for me, I was the weeenar. ^^ James of course, let us two girls play and he and her other friend Tony (who is very awesome) sat on the couch and heckled us. :P Ha. But Tony made tacos and his tacos are guuuuuuud. I won the ice dragon armor, so erm, yay! :D

That's all I have to say about that.

*shrug* ^^

So, I went to James' work today and put my army out on the table to take pictures for all of you wonderful people. Aren't you special? Yes you are! :D :D I was even a dork and put them on an actual webpage for easy viewing and saving of your friend's lists: Yes, I most certainly do occasionally use my Paragon account for erm, other stuff ;)

Go see! :D I even gave myself a fitting icon for my goofy Warhammer posts. :P *points up* Ha!

Ok, here's the list of things I need to do on this day off:
1) filing
2) billz calculationz
3) laundry (which is started yay!)
4) army lists for game tonight ^^
5) clean cat boxes (next on my list currently)
6) organize wajas :P
7) organize second bedroom further

Let's see how much I gets done yes :D

My Bretonnians. They are finished! ^.^ W00t! My goal was tomorrow, so therefore, I WIN.

I have to pep myself up before going into work today y'see. I have a bad feeling. So, I try to negate that with awesomeness.

I'll see if I can't get them all set up so that I can take a picture of em in their full army-ness.

:D

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I STOLE THIS MEME FROM ZINA. ^^

Yeah but this one is very specific. If you don't care about miniatures used to play tabletop strategy games like Warhammer,
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Shall I attempt to revive my old comic "The Silver Birch Forest"?

http://tsbf.comicgenesis.com/

Background: originally a joint venture between myself as the scripter/plotter and my artist friend Kat, it rolled along well until Kat feel into irl issues (totally understandable too if you knew) and no longer had muse or sometimes ability to do art. I took over completely, even attempting the artness myself along with some guest comics by the great Zina, before finally losing the will to continue. Finding time to art was becoming more difficult and well, yeah.

However, I do miss it and it might be fun to find a way to bring it back at least so I could finish the story. Granted, it would mean myself writing and drawing again but I have this tablet now that's horribly unused soo ... *shrug*

Not even sure I have time, but yeah, it popped into my head. Suggestions / ideas from the peanut gallery? (yes that's you folks)

((I really just miss Chit and Ky, you know it ;P))

Gee, it looks like I have a few options now for a particular IRL situation. This is a good thing. I like it. Apparently, in that field I still have luck ^.^

ALSO.

People I'm nearing the completion date for my Bretonnian army of DOOM.

Yup. ^^

Mew mew mew mew ^^

Seriously. Today was me painting. And having to put up with creepy coworker of James at work. He's like super cheerful creepy like the type that predates on small boys ...

Yeah. He didn't talk to me much because I'm good at ignoring. ;) That, and I was talking to other people around as well as somewhat of a distraction. Ha ha.

Almost done with my Bretonnians, tho. ^.^

I hand scaled five dog dentals the other day. HAND SCALED. x.x Seriously, my hand still aches. It was numb afterwards yesterday. In general, when a dental is performed in a dog we use the ultrasonic scaler under anesthesia. But ours broke apparently, right at the start of the day. So, they have to get done and I do happen to recall how to hand scale from school . . . . way out of practice tho. x.x

Still am not typing the greatest since certain ways I move my fingers to hit the keys hurts my hand or wrist. Bleh.

That is all. ^^