Ugh... big move is big. Holly and I are FINALLY mostly moved in. We ended up spending a fuckton on furniture since we had to get rid of so much before leaving NC. But my office is now set up (dual monitors, baby!), and the sofa gets delivered on Tues. Yay, I guess.

I'm currently attending AWA, AnimeUSA, EXPcon, NekoCon, and KuzuriCon before 2009 is out. Gotta get my ass in gear in a few days and really start pumping the artwork.

In other news, it's FUCKING HOT right now. Our house has no AC, so we're left with window fans. Still, today was the worst, with it being a constant 90 degrees indoors. Yes, I said indoors. This heat wave sucks balls. Ask me again in a month or so, I'll be bitching about the cold instead. Beh.

I haven't had any time to devote to much of anything except house cleaning, putting furniture together, and running errands. However, I do believe Heather's outfit will arrive in the mail this week (finally), so minus her boots, she'll be complete at long last. Pics will come, time permitting.

Now if you'll excuse me, I think I'll be taking a cold shower right now. Ugh.

Status update-ish thing: 

We've postponed the house-hunting trip to OH until the week of the 20th due to conflicts with Holly's Greensboro job. I have no idea if that means I'll be going to the Raleigh meet or not. I'll have to see closer to the event.

Holly is also in talks with a man in Japan about going over there (and taking me in tow) to work on a show in Tokyo for a week in September. Flight and board paid. Yes, I shit you not. I need to start learning more Japanese pronto. I foresee a trip to Borders/B&N's in my near future for language books and/or CDs.

My birthday was pretty nice. Holly and I went to the NC zoo for the day and came back to bowl that night. Sucked at bowling due to my gimp ankle, but the zoo was great. Plus yay for friends showing up at the alley just for me. :)

I sent off Heather's head to Leah yesterday for her faceup. I'm REALLY excited about that! She does such amazing work, and I'm sure this will be no exception.

Now I'm lining up a crapton of conventions for the rest of the year. Sadly, several of the ones I wanted to book already have full artist alleys. Seriously, they fill up 5-6 months in advance?? WTF.

Scary/exciting things are coming. On one hand, I'll be doing my artwork fulltime and going to conventions year-round. On the other hand, I'll now be doing said artwork to help the two of us survive. It's something I always wanted to do, but that doesn't mean it doesn't scare the hell out of me. It really does. Sometimes I feel like a poser compared to so many other great artists.

www.etsy.com/view_listing.php

DO. FREAKING. WANT!! WANT WANT WANT WANT!!!!
But... it's a lot of monies... T______T

And lol, I realized when looking at the seller that it's the same one who makes the hat Blyss wants! Such a small world we live in...

Okay, well... my plans to go to the steampunk ball this Friday may be cancelled, seeing as I badly sprained my ankle this past weekend and I'm hobbling around on crutches. BUT! The doc says I should theoretically be able to hobble-walk within 10 days. We'll see. I will, however, get to the Greensboro meet one way or another. *semi-epic pose*

Next, Iplehouse sent me my shipping notice this morning!!! However, their EMS number (or "waybill number", as they seem to call it) doesn't work. The EMS site tells me no such thing exists... Anyone had experience with this? Saige, I know you're the EMS guru, any words of wisdom?

Perhaps they simply haven't updated their system yet and it's actually there. I dunno. I just want to make sure someone will be around when it gets delivered. So yeah, there's the possibility of having Heather before this weekend's meet! *insert gushy excitement here*

That's my life at the moment. Fun stuff (literally and sarcastically).

1. You can ONLY answer 'Yes' or 'No'.

2. You are NOT ALLOWED to explain ANYTHING unless someone comments you and asks— and, believe me, the temptation to explain some of these will be overwhelming. Nothing is exactly as it seems.

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The doll bug has struck. HARD. I cannot freaking wait until Heather arrives! Come on, Iplehouse!! Just ship her! She doesn't even need a faceup!

Yeah, I know. These things take time, and most people don't see their dolls straight from the company for at least several weeks. But oh man. I've got Leah on board to do her faceup, and eyes coming from Lyzrd. I haven't had this much anticipation for a doll in a looooong time (I keep checking my status on IH every day to see if, perhaps, she shipped and they simply didn't tell me...yeah...). I'm totally geeking out about it.

Anyway, I don't think this could've come at a better time. As hard as things are right now with moving from place to place and job hunting, I know that there is a doll on the way. And that makes everything tolerable.

I'm being gushy, I know. Sure beats being depressed, though. ^_^

OH! And before I forget... to any of you who own slim mini's (Unoa, MiniFee, etc.), look on ebay for clothing for TY Girlz. They fit, and they're uber cheap!!

Why can't I sleeeeep!!??? WTF is my problem?

Yeah, so... I'm a slacker (or so I've been told), but the pics Holly took at the BBQ meet are now up in the thread. Go see. And don't kill me for my utter lack of punctuality. x_x

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Sooo... yeah. Holly and I had a great time. It was probably the busiest I've ever been in Artist Alley, and probably the most social as well. Things sold very well (not as well as last year, but still enough to be happy about), and holy crap Caramelldansen badges!! I sold all but like 4 of them.

The Mariott hotel room was niiiiice, with a big flatscreen HD TV that made me JIMP. Not very noisy, but the damn kids on the elevators were dumb. And so many stairs. Don't even get me started.

Pre-con Karaoke was fun, and special thanks to those of you who were there to cheer me on!  :3

I haz werk tomorrow, and then I'm off the rest of the week to move out of the apartment. Apparently we've amassed a large group of people to help us with the lure of free food as their reward. Rock on.

Whew.... I'm almost through this. The hard part, anyway. If I'm off the intarwebz for many days, it's obvious why. So please don't get offended if I don't respond to you. Plus you can always text me.  :)

Peace.