Innocent Devil's Keep

I hate headaches. I have no idea how people put up with them on a regular basis.

Have made all the covers for The Missing Butterfly and The Bastard Prince.

Am also going to slowly be moving my lulu stuffs over to LT3.

Now, I am going to have brunch. I think I'll make Eggs in a Basket, if we have the stuff.

My dear Finnish speakers, I know there's more than one of you, would someone mind dropping me an email and verifying some definitions for me? I don't always trust online translators... >.>

*is not planning utterly irreverent things, nooooo*

P.S. Good lord, does every word in Finnish start with a K, or just the ones I'm finding? x_x

Were you the one who edited Butterfly for me?

So, last night the jolena was successfully reobtained. Because we are crazy, we left here at four, reached her at nine,then immediately turned around and came back. nikerymis did most of the driving 'cause she's crazy and loves. Weather was beautiful all the way up into Slippery Rock. But right as we were headed back, snow began to fall and never really stopped :3 I drove the last three hours or so, and now I think I will spend my Saturday snuggly and warm in my house, doing writing and LT3 things.

Now to go make coffee.

And in less than a week now, we will be home ^__^

Right now, I'd like a good cup of coffee or hot chocolate (or both), a slice of rich chocolate cake, a good book, a nice fiction, a nice art, a good bar of dark chocolate, honey gold flakes (Nestle), finishing fiction, to see somebody special or just simply being able to wake up at 3:30 in the morning and know that I can attend Misa de Gallo.

ANYWAY, the last school week of 2009 just ended. That means I'm alive again. I'm not going to lab during the break because, well, I can't do anything substantial during the break. I'll try and finish my drive_a fic and restart a het fic (Clao: allelujiah). What else...? Mm... Yeah.

So. December 17 was a particularly scary day. EtBr (Ethidium bromide) splattered on my lab coat. It's thought to be a mutagen, which may cause somebody to die of cancer and it's definitely toxic. But Wiki says:

The National Toxicology Program states it is nonmutagenic in rats and mice [10]. Ethidium bromide (Homidium) use in animals to treat trypanosome infection suggests that toxicity and mutagenicity are not high. Studies have been conducted in animals to evaluate EtBr as a potential antitumorigenic chemotherapeutic agent[11]. Its chemotherapeutic use is due to its toxicity to mitochondria [12]. The above studies do not support the commonly held idea that ethidium bromide is a potent mutagen in humans, but they do indicate that it can be toxic at high concentrations.

Maybe I shouldn't worry too much. But I should take caution when I wash the lab coat. *nods* Because of that accident, I'm now called "EtBr Girl" and "Storm" (as in X-Men's Storm XD).

And I'm sad today. I reached home at around 12:30 this morning (I was at the PSIL Christmas party) and I was hoping to catch a bit of sleep and wake up at 3:30 am. I set the phone's alarm clock. It apparently didn't ring. I woke up at 5:00. Thus, I missed the dawn mass (Misa de Gallo to Filipinos). (It's a set of novena masses that's attended by Filipino Catholics in preparation for Christmas. It's one of those things that only Filipinos do for Christmas - one of the many things that makes Philippine Christmas the best in the world. :P) I've never completed the dawn masses, but I really, really, really wanted to complete the dawn masses this year. But, alas, it's not meant to be. But, hey, I can still aim for an 8/9 even if I can't get 9/9. *nods* It makes me so sad, though. Because I'm sad, I feel like walking over to Bonifacio High Street and buying myself a book or maybe I should be more thrifty and just get me a coffee instead.

But not every thing's sad. I had a particularly amusing discovery last night. SO FUNNY. I can't get over it. But Omar said that I'm not so expressive a person(but I'm the most expressive person during Carolfest, how ironic) so the Bascoses thought... Hahahaha. SO FUNNY. Well, I'm not particularly emotionless (though Carlo called me emotionless when I didn't show any reaction after scraping my knees and getting enormous wounds). But I guess I wouldn't know.

And Isay gave us cacti for Christmas. Cactus => Fuji => Tezuka. *nods* Happy thought.

And I don't know what gifts to get everyone. I thought I should get Tessa a wallet to (peer)pressure her into actually using one, but she doesn't seem to want another wallet. XD

Oh, and like the others, I'm disappointed with someone right now. *nods*

Thank you, newtypeshadow <3 I totally love everything ^__^ Om nom nom Godiva. And two journals, the one totally made me giggle ^__^ How many licks, indeed :3 And I cannot wait to listen to the music. Thank you very much, my dear ^___^

Oh, oh, I knew I was forgetting something!!! The cards! OMG they were AWESOME ^__^ I showed them to my peeps here, and we were all WHERE'S THE REST SULK SULK SULK :3

*snort* LJ is being stupid again, but what else is new. They're letting paid members send 'gifts' to non-paid members wherein the non-paid member can get a year's subscription for $10 instead of the usual $20. Except, they have to pay the $10. *eyeroll*

Still, half price is better than full, eh? If you want a coupon, pipe up.

I got to meet amatsubu today! ^__^ It was great, though next time I need to pack better... or just haul her up this way. ^^; She lives down on the south end of town, and I'm all the way up at the north edge.

I took Tian and Shaial with me to meet her, and I think we may have a convert. *gigglefit* Shaial liked her, though. He stood, in his hooves, on the carpet, for like ten minutes. :P Bah. Ungrateful demongod.

( I has pictures! )

I left her with ResinSoul's website. ^__^ Technically I was showing her the little green elfie I want to get to be chibi-Tau Ceti, not being an enabler, nope. ^______^

But now I doubly have reason to pick up the pace with the BP rewrite and Zero Chronicles. She knows where I live! AAAHHHHH!!!!! <3

On Friday, we go pick up my little sister from her school. On the following Thursday, we should be on the road no later than 2:00, headed for home \o/ And we will not be back in Cincinnati 'til the 2nd or 3rd \o/

I am finished with Addison's story, the Jewel rewrite, and hopefully today and tomorrow I'll finish Milo's story :3 Then I will pick a novella and run with it, and somewhere in there rewrite/edit the Wick stories as necessary.

And today is the second to last day of the office secret santa. I got her a silly mug and some funny office post-its. Then I got her a pretty infuster thingie from Yankee Candles that I really hope works for the big gift. I need to stop worrying about this crap.

Only a week.5 and I am free for a week! \o/

Leaving this unlocked for the recipe. ^__^

Tis the season for baking! And the boys would like to share. <3



Shaial's ( Double-Chocolate Mint Chip cookies )

The holidays are a hard season, for many reasons. Stress is high, shoppers panic trying to find those last-minute gifts, and retailers want to shoot said shoppers and put them out of their misery.

But it's hardest when you're miles from family, and the closest person to you is anti-family and doesn't see or care what it's all about.

So, of course, in the middle of these depressing times, add female hormones from our monthly event.

Just shoot me now.

• Finish cleaning/rearranging living room, hope roomies approve
  
• Finish transcribing Addison's story and Jewels rewrite
  
• Incur Samantha's wrath by sending Addison, Jewels, and Kirby's story for final edits
  
• Work on covers for Missing Butterfly and The Bastard Prince
  
• Work on Wick stories. First one needs rewritten, Third one needs heavy edits, I think the rest are good or need only minor tweaking?
  

I may also start transferring over my lulu and createspace stuff here soon, if we can alot hte ISBNs. Nothing about them will change, other than possibly the covers, I think. I don't want people who have already bought them to have to buy them again, that is just plain mean.

Looking to be a busy weekend, guess I should stop screwing around on LJ :3

This fluffy menace:



likes to wake me up, for those that don't actually know this story. He knows when I'm to be up, when I should be home, and when I'm supposed to go to bed. If I am not where I should be, when I should be, he gets Displeased.

Waking me up is his greatest chore. He starts off patting my head, then progresses to covering my mouth with his paw. Then he gets the claws out.

But, lately, I've thwarted him by rolling over and facing the wall instead of the nightstand. He gets mad and goes back to sleep with me for a bit.

Except now he's learned that he can climb up on me, stand right between my shoulder blades, and lean down to apply paw with claws in/out as per his preference.

So I was awake today, dead on time at 5:30, like I used to always be when I took the bus -__-

Pumpernickel: 5,000,000
Megan: 3

.... Dear Roommate,

I should not have to don gloves to tidy up the living room. If you have a cold, please to be learning how to aim for the wastebasket with your nasty, snotty tissues.

Also, just how long ago was it that you had that cold? Have you never heard of emptying the wastebasket before it gets to the overflowing on the ground part?

No love,

Me.


Dear Self,

You just had to don your respirator to clean. Don't you think maybe you should do it a little more often?

Yes, he's gay. Yes, this is supposed to mean he's a neat freak. It shouldn't take you this long to realize that not all stereotypes are accurate.

Get a clue,

Me.


Dear Cats,

Quit shedding. I'm allergic to you.

Not holding my breath,

Me.

Dude.

This guy made a dragon-shaped backpack out of leather. *____* He takes commissions too, but no way could I afford that. Alas.

*drools s'more*