It's been a while since I posted kitty pictures, so just so you know they are still cute....

( pictorial evidence )

Just posting the pics of the beautiful tropical fruit trifle I made for movie night last night. It has fresh pineapple, fresh mango, kiwis, coconut, and some canned red papaya for the nice pink color. And, it was delicious.

Okay, I have read too many books in the Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters in too short a time. The series is ridiculous, and just oodles of fun. Pictures were inevitable. Though, in all honesty, I was already doodling after Book 1. I drew glamour pics of the main characters, and they were so cute I had to share (even though Miss Katie is the only other person I know who has read said books, and she has already seen the pics).


( For those of you who are not interested, click not. )


In other news, I am not going home for Thanksgiving. This makes me rather sad, but what can you do?

Fluffy kittens.

( Experience the fluff. )

Phew, okay. Long time no post. Trip home last weekend was very very nice but very very busy. I was silly and forgot my camera, though, so no fun pictures. It was great to have Amy along for driving company most of the way. I probably should have let her drive for a bit on the way back to Rochester cause I was getting tired and seriously sick of driving, but there just wasn't really a handy stopping point to swap. I'm STILL doing that thing where I close my eyes and see the road, though. I think my retinas got the biological equivalent of pixel burn or something.

Buuuuut, I think I'm going to have to drive home this coming weekend too. Eh heh. My brother is going to be in town for a week and I haven't seen him in over a year. Just an unhappy coincidence that my drivings are a week apart - the Wicked tickets were purchased way back this summer, and Chris only planned his visit at the end of September. I do really really want to see him, but I'm just not looking forward to spending the weekend in the car again. Last week's trip was a little more spread out, even, and this one is just going to have to be a Friday night to Sunday afternoon situation.

It was awesome to see Wicked again, and I love it more than ever. I think I'm ready to see a different cast though. Even though the Glinda I saw was hilarious, the Elphie was excellent, and the Fiyero was really cute from far away (Miss Katie took pictures at the stage door when she was there with Lauren, and he's just not as cute close up. Sad).

Sadly, I must get myself ready for school now.

One of these days, I'll actually post about something other than my cats. But today is not that day.

Josie sleeping funny:


Josie going "Stop flashing that light in my face, I'm trying to sleep!"


And further proof that Josie and Percy like each other:

(He was actually giving her a bath, but I didn't get the camera out in time.)

And, also, Happy birthday to Miss Katie!

Now, on to work. Stupid Monday.

Miss Josephine is just so cute, she needed another post.

As kittens tend to be, she is a little ball of energy.


And, of course, after running around the apartment crazily, she falls over asleep.


She and Percy are getting along great! It's so fun to watch them play together. A little ridiculous of course, considering how tiny she is and how tiny he isn't. But what Josie lacks in size, she more than makes up for in cRaZy. They literally play tag, taking turns chasing each other between the kitchen and the living room. It's amazing. There are also some quiet moments, now and then.


Enjoy the cuteness!

Here are a few pictures of Josephine, who just came to live with me and her big brother Percy in Rochester a week ago. She and Percy are still not quite sure of each other (she was under quarantine until the vet gave her a clean bill of health, so they've been seperate most of the time), but I'm confident they'll be buddies soon.

Miss Katie was visiting me this weekend, and we had fun fun busy times! Saturday we went to an early matinee of Prince Caspian (cause I hadn't seen it yet), which was good, though I do have some problems with it, mostly concerning the fact that Caspian was older than me and rather attractive even though he was supposed to be about 13. Strange and confusing. But, but, but REEPICHEEP! Actually all the animal animation was very good (Trufflehunter too was quite good), but Reepicheep was just awesome. All in all, the movie was good, but Katie was right - it just made me want to see Dawn Treader ASAP. Except, I'm a little concerned about how Caspian being so much older than Edmund and Lucy will change the dynamic of interaction for Dawn Treader. I hope they're all buddies still despite Caspian being a grown up. .... A really good looking grown up. *ahem*

After the movie, we got dressed up (I wish I'd thought to take a picture, we were cute!), grabbed some tasty Thai food for dinner, and then went off to the Auditorium Theater to see WICKED!

The theater itself was... not exactly what I was expecting? For one thing, I thought there would be a parking garage, but the parking was all in little lots on the surrounding streets. Which was fine - we paid 5 bucks to park right across the street from the theater in a church parking lot. Traffic was just murderous after the show was over. Luckily I made Katie drive (thanks Katie!). It was the first time I'd gone to a show at the Auditorium Theatre, and all in all I found it to be nice, but not quite as pretty as the Eastman Theater? It has more seating, obviously, but not quite as much character. And I realized that I have been extremely spoiled by going to see shows at the Benedum in Pittsburgh, because it is SUCH a beautiful theater. But despite a slight lack in ambience, the show was positively FANTASTIC! Our seats were better than I was expecting. We had these two seats off in their own mini row on the left side, so Katie could kinda put her legs out in the aisle, and we had a perfect view of the stage. It was the first weekend evening show of the Rochester run, and you could tell, I think. The audience was SO responsive. They were breaking out into applause at all these random moments - right in the middle of Popular, for example - and laughing at everything. And the cast definitely deserved it, because they were excellent. The girl playing Glinda was wonderful! She had a great voice, and was SO HYPER and enthusiastic and put so much personality into a role that already has a lot of intrinsic personality. And our Elphaba was also really excellent in voice and acting. She really played the part a lot angrier than I was expecting and it totally worked. And, adorably, the guy playing Fiyero was married to the girl playing Nessarose, and apparently they'd toured in Miss Saigon as Chris and Kim, respectively. Adorable and... slightly depressing. They were also both very good in their roles (though Katie was lamenting Fiyero's short hair). I was expecting to love the show, and I did did did did. Did.

Did.

My only regret is that I had no money on me for a picture program. But, I know people at school who are going in two weeks, so I may yet decide to get one.

Eeeeee, Wicked! The sets were really cool, the costumes were CRAZY, the cast, as mentioned, was great, and it all made me remember how much I love live theater. Definitely a good time.

And now it is time for me to get ready for work. Wow, I think that's the more words than there are in the rest of my livejournal posts combined.

Okay, I promised Tina I would post images for her to see my new haircut.







I've never had bangs, well, EVER, so... this is a bit of a change for me. The stylist was extremely nice, and kept complimenting me on how thick and healthy my hair was, how she could tell I hadn't colored it, etc... The only weird thing was.... just as I was about finished up, another one of the stylists came over to talk to the woman working on my hair, and said, "It turned out good. I was worried, cause she was a mess when she came in!"

And I sort of went, "....? Oh crap, she doesn't mean me, does she?"

... I choose to assume not, and the other stylist was talking about the person she'd been working on. I .... am hoping she wouldn't actually say that right in front of me!

So that is my haircut and my haircut story. And now I have to pack for the drive to PA tomorrow afternoon!

I haven't posted in roughly forever, and this is just going to be a short one. I made a fun green necklace last night and decided to put it up.



Also, my cat is adorable.

Colored! Suggest a caption if you like. :D



My scanner continues to be crap - but colored pencil, even under the best of circumstances, really doesn't scan well in my experience. I guess the obvious solution would be for me to learn to color on the computer. The problem with this is that I stink at digital art, and I just don't enjoy it. I find it tedious and unpleasant, and I don't care for the results I end up with. I rather enjoy coloring with colored pencils (there are crayons involved above as well, cause I couldn't find my black prismacolor until it was too late), and the results look nice to me in person, even if they suck on the computer. Ah well.

Stupid daylight savings time, making my weekend an hour shorter!

Yeah, okay, I admit this is pretty silly.

I drew the little doodle below during lunch at school today. To attempt to explain - I kinda fell in love with the soundtrack of the musical Wicked a few months ago (I have not read the book), after Katie shared it with me. Every time I mentioned the song "Defying Gravity" in conversation with her, I naturally wanted to follow this up with the line "I laugh at gravity all the time! Hehe. Ah, gravity", from Avatar. This led me to ponder that Aang and Elphie needed to bond over their mutual disregard for the laws of physics. Thus, everyone's favorite green skinned girl and everyone's favorite airbender meet in my doodle. Oh, and Momo too. Cause he is a flying monkey, after all. At some point I'll clean it up a bit (I don't really remember the details of the new glider) and color it (cause what's the point in drawing Elphaba if I'm not going to color her?), but here it is so far:



Also, I think I need a new scanner.

So, last night I had every intention of making homemade brownies, but I was far too cold to stir from beneath my pile of blankets. So I made them this morning instead. Buuuut, somehow, in my head, they still count for the 28th. And that's all that matters, right?



I forgot to take a picture this morning, and this was all that was left after I took them in to work today.

I actually ended up being one egg short for the recipe. Well, there were enough eggs in the carton, but the last one was cracked and I didn't use it. The batter was a little stiffer than usual, but they still came out pretty delicious. In one of my lab coworker's words, they "kick Duncan Hines' ass".

Tonight's craft was a three stand necklace that I barely got started. My kitty woke up and decided he wanted to bat at and/or bite everything involved in the jewelry making process, so I just packed up. I'll post a picture when I finish it.



And that is my last thing-a-day project! It's been fun! I will definitely continue to post pictures of my completed craft projects, but I might need to take a break and read a book or something instead of spending all my free time on beads and yarn.

On a totally unrelated note, my neighbor apparently saw a mouse in her apartment. She was trying to lure it out into the hall with - I kid not - a tray of poisoned cheese (I wish I had a picture of that!). This troubles me. Well, the mouse itself, not just the cheese tray of rodent death. Granted, a mouse would have to be pretty dumb or pretty desperate to venture into my cat-ruled apartment, as I'm pretty sure the Percy cat would make short work of one. I just don't want to have to deal with mousebits, or rodent related kitty indigestion, or other such nastiness.

And on that cheerful and pleasant note, I am off to bed.

Well, I've also been working on another crochet project, but I haven't taken any photos of the progress on that yet. Last night I made a blue necklace with a fun toggle clasp, but I was too tired to post any photos by the time I finished.

Here it is:





On a completeley unrelated note, my apartment is FREEZING.

Monday, I am not very happy to see you again.

I seem to have a hard time getting up the motivation to take pictures and post my crafts on the weekend. I have mostly been crocheting (slowly but surely working on the pink armwarmers - I didn't post any progress on the left one cause it would have been pretty much the same as the progress on the right one), though I did take a wee break for beading on Saturday evening.

Beadings:





Here are some more of those fun pink cube beads that showed up in earrings recently. I think they're extremely cute.

And crochetings:



I kind of went on an extended mission for the thick dark pink yarn for these after I ran out on Saturday night. I eventually found it at Michael's. All in all, they took way longer than expected, and I'm not totally sure why. Probably I was just spending less time uninteruptedly crocheting. That would make sense.

Lunar Eclipse night! Sadly it wasn't so awesome here, since it was super overcast at first, and then, snowing. The moon disappeared and then never came back! I just hope it'll be back tomorrow night.

Katie and I did some quality speculating about whether or not lunar eclipses make werewolves de-wolf. If anyone has some insights on this subject, do let me know.

So, my project for the night involved my cute new cardigan,
( and its buttons. )

Sooo, I've gotten a little behind on my thing-a-day postings because I had company this weekend! Miss Katie came to visit me, so we spent Friday evening through Monday morning hanging out and having good good times. As Katie can attest however, I was a good little thing-a-day-er throughout her visit, and I pulled out my crocheting whenever we sat down to watch a movie (or several hours of Alias). Mostly I did this because I wanted to finish the scarf for her while she was visiting so she could just take it home with her.

( I'll put in a cut cause I've got a bunch of pictures tonight. )

I got some work done on the new armwarmers tonight. I also cleaned off my desk and threw away a ton of junk mail, but I'm not sure that counts as creative. Maybe destructive. But in a good way.

I gotta start posting when I'm a little more awake.

Earrings. Too tired to be coherent. I also worked on the armwarmers, but I will post progress later on. Not tonight. Too sleepy.