I don't know about commitment, but I can probably manage a quickie

[elanya]

I have such great intentions of regular posting but I can't seem to keep it up ;p I't a shame - I don't know if anyone reads this regularly, but personally I always feel more connected to people when I can read regularly about their lives. I'd like to.... I dunno if it is that i want to offer you that same opportunity, or the more egoistical version where I want people to feel more connected to me as a sense of validation. Anyway :p Hi?

Work goes on. It is a big mess and I have so many mixed feelings.

I managed to write two things for Jukebox, and am quite pleased with both of them! I also received both a gift and a treat, and they were both so so great! I'm super pleased! I wish I'd been able to write more, but I am having a hard time with time, and motivation, and organization, and life balance things.

I went to a LARP game a few weeks ago and it was super great fun! I know I don't have the time and energy or money to get really sucked back in, but man can I feel the pull of it!

I got more tattoo work done! I got a few more spirals on my underarm (ouch!), plus I got some way-overdue touchups and fixes done to the last bits I had done when I was in Texas. I really really like the artist I've found here, much more than I liked the person in Texas. She's looking in to branding for me, because it isn't really a common thing. But I might know some other people I can look through. I want to get at least one more brand as part of this over all piece. Possibly I'm crazy. But I really want it. pics here!

Uh... what else...I have been and am going to be doing a bunch of traveling! in two weeks I'm going with Nary to Massachusetts for her Grandmother's 100th birthday party, wooh! It will be a pretty hit-and-run affair. Then in August I'll be in New Brunswick to see my dad and folks for two weeks, and then at the end of the month I'm taking a road trip down to Texas for Webercon and to see some other Texas friends. I don't think we have officially told tethys123 that we are planning to descend upon her, but we are (hi! :V)

I am about 3/4 through knitting a cool bolero (ember bolero), and I've started some socks. But also I bough some gorgeous gradient yarn (midnight paintbox by Fiber Optic yarns) to knit another shawl. A bigger shawl! The pattern is Cynara, and I'm still debating how I want to do the gradients for it.

I'm sure I'm missing some stuff, but honestly nothing much has changed with me lately. I really should be job hunting but ugh. Just ugh. Also, ugh.
I'm going out bin a bit to Kareoke at the pub up the street, which is a newish thing in my life (see above re: life balance though, ugh). But I have a cold, so we'll see how things go...

Like I said this is a quicky so if you want links to anything poke me and I'll add them later :3

Comments

[azurelunatic]

Hi!

I read more regularly here than LJ, so it's always nice to see more updates from people.

Yay body art! What's the bit that you want branded?

[elanya]

I just cross post to both when I do post :3

As for the next brand, I want another spiral as part of the sleeve. You can't see the area really well in the pics of the new bit (link added!) But you can see better here in this random pic of me decorating a Hannibal cake last year: I want it just below and attached to the black and red spirals on my outer arm, and about that size. The new stuff was planned to leave space for it :)

[azurelunatic]

Oooo, that is a gorgeous sleeve, and a brand would work really really well as part of it!

[elanya]

Thanks :) It started from the first brand I got, and I really want at least one more in the whole piece

[morbane]

Love the title. ;)

I think I know what you mean about posting. Every now and then I look at my journal, and I think about the shape of my life compared to the shape of my life as seen from my journal, and the difference is so odd.

Good luck for travelling!

I went to karaoke recently and had a very silly time. I don't... quite know how people make it a regular thing. Do you often repeat songs?

[elanya]

I've only been three times so far, despite having better intentions on a few occasions. I go with people I know, including my sister, so it is as much about hanging out with them as the singing! I try not to repeat songs, and o haven't had to so far - the selection they have is pretty good, even for someone like me who is very out of touch with most pop music. But where are also enough other people there that I don't usually get through that many songs anyway! Monday I only did two, which was partly because I left early and partly because sick and I strained my voice on Kiss You Off by the Scissor Sisters ;p