steady rollin'

Yesterday I could finally say I made it past my second cold of the winter season. Thank goodness. I am done with being sick for quite a while, I hope. Usually I don't sleep in much anymore since I tend to be up so early during the week, but clearly I was catching up on sleep since I made it nearly all the way to eleven. Rest of the day was packed with needed errands and other things, and after a few more necessary bits of going out today and dealing with paperwork for upcoming year-in-review meetings, I managed to sit down and READ THINGS.

I have almost managed to comment on all the lovely extra goodies that came my way this Yuletide. Hopefully I'll also have time to respond to the feedback I got from folks on my own story as well. Still planning on making rec posts, as I've continued to keep a zillion tabs open, and I'm already feeling the slowdown at work. So relieved.

( yammering about my yuletide fic )

Now I shall return to commenting, and then see about finishing my other wintry fic exchange obligation!

Each and every year, Yuletide continues to be amazing. Behold, recs for my very own awesome goodies! Share button, you so handy!

Frosty the Snow Manager - Some Like It Hot - Gen (Sugar and Daphne) - Sweet Sue and Society Syncopators Snowbound! Manager has flu! Sugar steps in to save the day! Extra, extra, read all about it!

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First person can be so tough to pull off, but I can't imagine this any other way. Daphne's voice is perfect and this fic is too adorable for words. My request was for Sugar to have to dress as a man for some reason, and imagining her in Beinstock's suit and bossing around a booking agent is just TOO FUN. This is my absolute most favorite movie and I was iffy about requesting it since I love the canon so much, but getting this fic I am so very glad I put it on the list!

Low Life - X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) - Gen (Remy and Logan) - Remy trips over an old man he met once, under fairly memorable circumstances.

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Everything Remy should've been in the movie, and everything I love about him all in a single fic. Set post-film wherein Remy trips over an unconscious Logan and brings him home. It's a basic premise and yet it gives such a fantastic peek into Remy's life and the way he thinks. Beautifully written with nods towards greater canon that made me all kinds of flaily.

Talent Mastery - World of Warcraft - Slashy (Thassarian and Koltira) - Orbaz Bloodbane threatens Koltira. Thassarian intervenes.

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OMG this fic! I didn't expect humour for the pairing when I requested it, and this is as fun as punching Deathwing in the face. For reals. There's a little bit of adorableness that's practically all "will you stay in my alcove with me, circle one, y/n" and some badass fighting, and a whole of Thassarian has epic feels for Koltira sprinkled with bantery flirting. Next time I raise a Bone Shield, I'm pretty sure I'm going to LOL.

Hooray, it's Yuletide season!

Thank you for writing for me. I'm incredibly easy to please when it comes to gifts, so please have fun writing and don't stress out. :D

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J got the job he's been trying for! It's for a great company, doing something in his field that's more on the education end (versus actually animating) so I know he's going to love it. He'll have time to pursue his own projects and painting on the side too. :D I'm so excited.

Since he pulled in some nice checks this month from freelance gigs, the ridiculous injection of money into the economy begins shortly. Firstly, new clothes so he looks presentable and maybe some goodies to decorate his cube. Then new phones for the both of us. Then my tattoo since I can finally conscience spending money on it. Then simultaneously paying off our student loans and saving for a proper trip somewhere. zomg wee!

Work project done! Next week begins a period of actually having evenings and weekends again! J has a job interview coming up (second interview! woot!) which I hope goes well enough that I might be able to at least attend y-con for one day so I can cruise the artist alley, but otherwise this'll be the first year I haven't attended since year one. Madness.

I cooked things today. And also I worked on my little Daken sculpture. I may be getting a set of colour shapers for my b-day for which I am completely excited. I miss doing sculpture more than I thought, although I think I need to do some creature sculpts or something a little more free form than humanoids to experiment with texturing.

I also am sitting here considering starting a tumblr to easily post all the random shit I have sketched today.

I actually have a three day weekend (well 2.5 day weekend since there's a crapload of emails I need to respond to) so I'm hoping to get more drawing done so I stop feeling so f'ing rusty. After next week the day job starts getting slower and slower, plus I've got 2 weeks vacay to take at some point in October or November.

To celebrate all this miraculous free time, I bring arts! msilverstar posted a bunch of lovely Viggo pics so I did a quick sketchpaint off the profile one.



( Aragorn sketchpaint portrait )

So very rusty!

Busy season is more busy than last year. Plus event coordination. Plus packaging design. Plus a zillion other things.

I have had enough free time to see Captain America twice. Today my co-worker and I skipped out early to catch a showing.

I had no idea I could adore Chris Evans this much. Such is the power of Steve. \o/

Anyway, hi internets. I need to crash already. Working a lot blows, but what hey.

Work has been downright crazycakes lately. Too much to do and more projects than I can manage reasonably. The seasonal (and primary!) component of my job has ratcheted up and I have a lot of VIP clients who I personally take care of so all those zillion projects are having to take a back seat. On top of this we're on a trial period with FedEx instead of UPS as our primary provider. Things had smoothed out on the shipping end until this week when the weather really screwed with deliveries. One day delays due to thunderstorms because planes arrive in TN for FedEx instead of PA for UPS means we're off to a poor start. Fuf. I'm not really looking forward to tomorrow.

On the flip side I've been dealing with so much design and packaging and pointless meetings that I'd forgotten how much I love the customer end of my job. One of my clients sent me an absolutely lovely card today and another has told me to keep an eye out for a gift. I await the day that cars and diamonds start showing up as thanks for my awesome customer service. :p

I hope that this weekend I can do some serious drawing.

Took Friday off and went camping this weekend. There was still snow in part of the campground. Cue my being a coastal Californian and being all LOOK SNOW and poking it with a stick. True story.

We came back in time to watch Thor on Sunday. I haven't quite caught up with my EPIC SQUEE yet. I will note that I like this community: comicbookmovies because even if I like paper comics, it's the movies that get me to do fannish things. I wish I could find time to draw.

Which in theory would be easier without ALL THIS STUFF TO WATCH SRSLY. I'm caught up now on Game of Thrones. I had a tough time with the premiere in that I didn't feel engaged and was more sitting there feeling like oh this is the same/different also that is not at all how I pictured _____.

( Not really spoilery but to be safe... )

I'm catching up slowly on Fringe, too. I miss a lot of the dynamics from early eps, and some of the mythos has hit a peeve button or two, but I've gotten past the big moment which made me need to stop watching for a bit and am looking forward to getting through the rest of the season. Hopefully I can do that before I accidentally get spoiled about anything. Facebook, I'm looking at you.

Two hours to H50....

Work is busy. This seems to be my mantra of late, to the point where I feel I have nothing interesting to post that is not omgworkblah related. I haven't even watched Game of Thrones yet, and the only drawing I've done has been for paying gigs.

Normally I would be watching TV when I get home hours late and am too exhausted to do anything, but I've still been throwing that time at WoW instead. Apparently I can tank mid-level randoms or PVP when I'm exhausted. Heyyy adrenaline.

So Easter Sunday was also my niece's birthday. It was a little overwhelming with tons of family, but it was good to see them all. There were carnitas and fresh made tortillas so it was epic noms. They also have a new rescue pitbull who was just the sweetest thing ever. I wanted to steal him for my very own. Pet starved much?

Stacking onto the visit, J's brother got us tickets to see Two Gallants the same night at Bottom of the Hill. It was an awesome show and both the openers were good although I didn't catch the name of the second. It wasn't as loud of a show as Cymbals Eat Guitars, but I wish I'd remembered my earplugs.