Busy Week of Work

My boss is gonna work me hard this week.

Jerk.

^^

Anywho, today I'm picking up the new photos on models from my last two shoots. Then I'll be cleaning up at home, and updating listings.

Then Tuesday and Wednesday, I'm gonna be taking photos of all the pieces I need to get photos of. I plan on including my latests pieces, rings... And belts.

Thursday is an early day... I'll be taking my dad to work, then picking my brother up from the air port. :P have to be up way to early that day.

Friday has a hair appt and gaming.  No clue what we're doing this Saturday, but I'm hoping we can visit my BFF and Nephew, since I'm the only family member to have seen Theo.

All in all, it should be a nice week, if busy. I need to finish editing Gwen Edur's story, which I'm gonna try and do this week... Along with everything else.

See, my boss is a jerk.

Kristy C

Day 21 of NaNo

At least the day's not over yet...

So, yesterday was one of several bad mornings I've been having lately.  No desire to get up out of bed, barely able to feed the cat, before I'm back in bed for a few more hours.  Sucks.

Did some errands, picked up a new script and then to the bank.  Then, to gaming.

Had a nice chat with one of the gamers, before we got into the actual game.

I won't say what one, so I don't give anything away.  But, I play an Oracle of Time, 13th LV.  All six of us were on an airship, that was going down.  So the Wizard and I headed off to take care of the ship, while the others flew after our reason for being here.

Step into the Engine room, I look around.  Nothing.  I don't trust it.  [My characters not a trusting person, at all.]

I use my Time Sight, where I can see them.  Whispering to the Wizard, I say 'There's a person over there.'

:D  Then I point in the other direction and send off a new spell, Undeath to Death.  Take out four of six zombies.

I think the Wizard and I had fun in that little battle.  Walking around with a Cleric who likes killing things, two paladins and a fighter rogue, sometimes you end up being left behind in the dust, nothing but support.  Nope, we kicked ass.

Then, we still crashed.  But from 100ft away, we're effective and just focus on killing things, while the others do the up close and personal.

Got home, after an incident of 'OMG, NO GAS!!' and sadly contributing to my dad's bad day, by needing him to rescue me.

Did some writing a little before, and after midnight.  [I count it as the same day though.]  Did a weird, I'm tired, scene in the story and hated it, then was able to turn it around into something cool.  I may have info dumped, but we'll see in the edits.

All in all, wasn't a bad day.  I enjoyed the game, and I enjoyed the chance to beat people up.  My oracle dislikes undead things, and takes great joy in rekilling them.

WC, 77,473

Kristy C


OH!!  Also, check out this KICK ASS Video.  Made me laugh [and just keep watching this groups stuff.]

Day 7 of NaNo... And a lovely Panic Attack

So, my Friday was swamped and I wasn't gonna be able to spend as much time writing, as I thought I would.  I was actually wrong about that, since my gaming only took up the early evening, not the later part. Got home early, and planned to get to work.

I'd managed to write up some words before gaming started [about 600 in fact, not too bad.] on a new story that arrived on Thursday.  I reached a place of pause in my other two biggies, and pulled out a bunch of prompts I liked to use as a kinda... Cleansing palette thing.

They gave me 3 shorts [two completed, one in works] and 3k in words.  Not too shabby for some shorts.

On the next one, 'Paragon of Innocence', I got something from out in left field.

The story starts on a bus, with a young girl [17] listening to a conversation from the two girls in front of her.  Its not something she wants, but its something she's stuck with.  A guy behind her, one she's known for years, but had sort of forgotten about, starts to chat with her.

Out of no where, the bus runs into some BIG, and she has only one choice on what to do...

Sneakily change into her Magic Girl persona, and fight it.

Yep, that happened.  Snarky girl is a magic girl.  And its a blast.

Before my snidbit, let me catch you up on my Friday night.  After gaming, got home..Did writing and was about to start a Word War [WW] when something sparked a panic attack.  Heart started racing, body aching, head hurting and a bit light, out of breath.

Ah, the joys of panic attacks.  :P

No idea why, just there.  I kinda pushed through to do some writing, then gave up for the night.  My saving grace, was that I managed to still get in the daily 1667 [over, but still] and pushed myself into for sure being quite a bit ahead.

23,789 is my current WC, and that's just past day 14's goal.  ON DAY 7!!!  For me, that's freaking HUGE!!

Anywho, here's a piece of my Magic Girl story.  Hope you enjoy. [Its long, sorry]

Laughing, I ended up wincing as one of the bimbo’s screeched a moment before the bus smashed into something fairly solid.  Turning around, I blinked at what that ‘solid’ thing was. 

“Crap.”  I mumbled, blindly digging into my bag.  I did not need this right now.  Risking a glance behind me, I noticed Cory had vanished.  Half standing, I looked around the bus for him.  Most of the students were crowding their way off, so I figured he had done the same thing.  “Finally!”  I cried, pulling out the smartphone I kept hidden away.
Taking another look around, I sat back down and managed to mostly hide myself as I dialed a number and pressed send. 

Can I just say that changing into a ‘magical’ girl while you’re laying on the seat of a bus is not something I wanted to repeat any time soon.  Bad enough I had to carry on this stupid family thing, but if anyone figured out it was me.. I was screwed. 

Yay for having a magical smartphone that could teleport me out of the bus and behind the monster. 

“Hey, bug brain.  Looking for a real fight?” 

Who said that?  I was supposed to be the one giving quirky quips to the big and evil things that seemed to wander around our city like it was free pass day from the looney farm. 

Ah, there was a guy standing on top of the bus.  Guessing that’s who stole my thunder.  Ok, lets see if I can remember the phrase my mom told me had to be said for the baddies to know why they should fear me… Something about ‘paragon of truth of something…’ Oh yeah. 

“Yo, ugly.  Stand down, or prepare to fight the [pure truth that only loves mighty strength can grant.]”  He turned to look at me, frowning 

I kid you know, he frowned at me.  Jerk. 

“What?” I yelled at him. 

“You thaid it wrong.”  He got out. Don’t think words are what that mouth was meant for. 

“I what?” 

“You thaid it wrong.  Ith ‘The paragon of truth will thow me the thrength only love can grant’.”

I glared at him, this really sucked.  I hated my family.  Stupid magical people with their stupid magical phones and annoyingly pink outfits.

“EEKKK!!! Look at him, he’s so sexy!” One of the bimbos screamed, as the magical guy jumped off the top of the bus, landing next to me. 

“I don’t mean to interrupt this reunion, but think we could do away with this dark creature?” he asked me, sounding… Annoyingly right, and kinda like someone I knew. 

“Fine, whatever.”  Looking him over, I didn’t bother with a few of my ‘attacks’ knowing they’d just annoy him and cause lots of damage.  I swear, magical people did more property damage than the monsters. 

Taking my little tiara off, I screamed out the ‘spell’ to release it.  Someday, I was gonna learn if I had to say it all, what with the spinning around and all that, or if I could just throw the damned thing. 

“By the light of the sun, by the grace of the moon, I send thee back to the hell from which you came!” 

“What about more banter!!” he cried, just before my tiara struck home and he splintered into a million little pieces. 

“New to this?”  The guy asked, smirking down at me. 

“Yeah, look… I’ve gotta go.  But please, don’t steal the spotlight again.  Towns only big enough for one magical dweeb and I’m it, got it?” 

“Sorry, I’m here to stay.”  He said, before swirling his cape (really, a cape?) and vanishing in a puff of smoke. 

“Well crap.”  I said, pushing a few buttons on my phone and letting it transport me away, while transforming me back to me.

:D  Its gonna be awesome.

Kristy C

Drama Rama

In my day to day life, I try my hardest to avoid getting in the middle of drama and to avoid drama queens.  Its impossible to always avoid them, but I do try.

Lately however, there's been some drama in a local community I'm a member of and its kinda annoying. As is typical, I've got friends on both sides of the line, and I think there's more than just two of them out there.

What I think bothers me the most, is that a few weeks ago when everything came to a head, one of those people seemed rather understanding and not that upset.

Now, a little over a month later, they're bitchy and very upset over everything and to the point of ignoring evidence that others aren't avoiding things, but have other plans.  Just because amends have been made, doesn't mean that it'll all be fixed with an 'I'm sorry and things are changing.'

It takes time to heal the wounds that have festered for some time now.  During the time of pain, people often pull away to wait things out.  Some of us are watching through the changes, others are going to watch from the sidelines.  Both are valid standpoints, but you have to just keep plodding along as best you can on either side.

What's hard, is that none of this takes into account that sometimes people make other plants and there's nothing you can do about it.  Anniversaries, vacations, class schedules, work... All of those things can cause you to not go for a few weeks.  For heavens sake, I've missed quite a few shows in Sept, due to other events.  No one complained about me [I don't think].  Is it just because I told them I'd be gone?

Sometimes, things happen and we all just have to realize that.  Its not easy to do, but we have too.

Kristy C

Bah, late post

Had a long night yesterday... Well, a long day in all.  But then, Friday's tend to be long.  Gaming starts at 2, [or, its supposed to...] and I arrive about 1:30ish, to make sure I'm there in time.  And then the first session runs til 6, with an hour break before the second session starts at 7 and goes til 11.

Well, both of my games started late and one ran late, while the other got over early.  Was kinda weird.  Enjoyed both of them, but the gentlemen who GMed the first game had some health issues in the end and had to leave by ambulance.

I'm praying he's ok.  Nice guy.

Our second game.. Well, it turned out all of us had played it and so none of us could play it.  Instead, we did a last minute other game and I played Bruce Wayne. :D  I only picked him of my 20+ level 1's, because my friend said she wanted to play Kyle, her Catwoman character.  Decided I should for sure play Batman right then and there.

Had a BLAST, despite being told I shouldn't have a sword.


Anywho, sorry its late.  I'm gonna get on the ball this weekend and prepare more posts, making sure its not all last minute.  Ya'll deserve better than that.

Kristy C

Sorry its late...

Had a long day yesterday.

One of my best friends needed to get a ride to the doctor, and since they're carless... I'm one of 3 people who often help them out.  I don't mind, since I enjoy being with them.  But, I had to pick them up about 8:30 in the morning and I'm normally barely up.

Got home about 1ish, as we also needed to take a quick trip to the store for a bit.  Goofed around on my laptop, before knowing I needed a nap.

Ugh, right now I feel like I could use one, and I've barely been up.

After a good 2+ hour nap, a friend texted me about joining in on a Pathfinder game.  So, I did.  That ended about 12:30 and I got home close to 1am.  Enough time to groggily look at my computer, before crashing.

So today, despite wanting to go back to bed, I've gotta get some work done.  I want to do an Inventory.  I had hoped to have help with it, but I don't think that's gonna happen.  Oh well.

Hope you all have a good day!!

Kristy C

Nothing Much...

To blog about today.  I spent most of yesterday at a gaming session and had fun there.

While the GM and a few of the players were great, a little over 2 actually annoyed the hell outta me.  Unhelpful and at times, almost unsure of why they were there.

Nearly died twice, but the GM saved me by being nice when a few of the battles were brutal.  I guess you could say, he didn't let us die because the campaign was too hard, but if we'd been on par he might have let it go... And the character as well.

I won a book that's not legal in normal game play, but that's ok I'll find away to use it.  ^^  And I won a Boon called 'Ancestral Ally'.  Not one I can use, so I'm gonna see if I can trade it later on.  I was also able to trade my Kickstarter Boon for a Sylph one, which I've wanted for a while now.  :D

Now, I just have to figure out what character to create with her and play the silly thing.  Also need to go through my 30+ characters and pick out which ones I want to work on building up.

All in all, today wasn't all that bad.  Fad fun, played games, hung out with friends... Took a break from life, which I kinda needed.

Game again today, after having tried to get 2 writing sprints under my belt as well.

There was some semi shocking personal news, but I'm not prepared to face it all the way just yet.  I'll post about it in the coming days.

Hope you have a good day!!

Kristy C