still_asking

I've got some things that the move has shown me I don't have room for. I'm planning on craigslisting them, but they are not in nice neat boxes ready for photos and pricing. So this is both a heads up to friends who want to make an offer, and a request for pricing advice.

A huge amount of Creative Memories Stuff (TM) - sort by type or just sell by volume? Some of the older stickers may have lost some stick, but if you use page protectors I think they'd be fine. Suggestions? Offers?

Rubber Stamping Stuff. Some by Stamp it Up. Many sets. Photo and sell the sets separately, and the rest en masse or just all in a pile? Again, I ask for suggestions and offers.

A massage table, well cared for. I HATE selling this, I really do, but I've got absolutely no room for it and can't manage doing sufficient massage hours to live on anymore. Living Earth Craft - which I consider equlivant to Oakworks, just a smaller company. Extra thick foam top. Folds to carry. Comes with headrest extension.

A massage chair. Oakworks. With carrying case, light use, well cared for.

Thanks to everyone for the support.

There is a nasty infection, technically two infections - one for each side of his head, but it has not spread. I don't think the generic penicillin they gave is really going to cure it tho, but I've also got reason to believe he'll be able to get something more in the Amoxcillin range soon, because.....

The really good news is a dentist has agreed to let Tangent owe him money. The appointment is for Monday.

Weird that an opportunity to accumulate debt is good news, but it is. This guy has seen Tangent before, done some work on him that was supposed to be covered by a grant that fell through, Tangent paid it off. They have some mutual respect.

have given him trouble for some time now. Both his parents had rotten teeth and with the best care he's been able to give his, they are still failing him.

With the best care he's been able to give them, that's a phrase... He has full Medicare/Medicaid (I'm too worried and mad right now to make distinctions - he has Government Health) full coverage, but full coverage does not mean dental. Yet it is full. We tread on philosophy here. And tread in fear. My Mom was just telling me about a boy who died of his teeth, I made her stop, I don't want to know this right now.

Tangent went to his physical therapy today (neck work from a rear ending he received) and his teeth were so bad that the therapist couldn't work on him without causing more pain. She's afraid that it's an infection that could spread to his brain and had him walked over to ER.

I'm at home, waiting for a friend to come to drive me over so I can be the support brigade.

The apartment is a bit smaller and grubbier than I'd hoped, but on the other hand I got the 13th floor with pretty night views and to the west to see sunsets. (Daytime Towsend remains, daytime Towsend - little glamor there.)

Packing and moving are taking place sort of simultaneously as I wasn't expecting this yet and we are short on boxes and plan. Oh well, we can recycle the boxes back and forth, it's a nearby move.

For those of you local the call is still out - help me move, get great karma, 1st choice of "pruned" books* or anything else being left by the wayside and a party once I'm settled.

* mostly gardening, this seemed like the right time to give up plans for elaborate gardens and to keep to plants in pots. Hydrophonic even.


- Karen

I think this is what they call "good" stress. The apartment I've been on a waiting list for the past two years is now available. I may be able to get keys as soon as Wednesday.

Where I'm going to get the deposits by Wednesday is a good question. I hadn't thought the place would come available for several months yet, and all my personal savings have been eaten by "save the house" level disasters. Real true emergencies though, nothing to regret.

Anyone willing to help me move?

Baltimore townhouse (safe area) to Towson apartment (Town Center)

anne mccafferey's dragons - best friends who can fly and teleport

Now I have my first grey egg



a new stone egg



a shocking pink egg



and a clean white egg



But the scoll at http://dragcave.net/user/Still%20Asking tells more about them.

The grey rock one is pedigreed - Mommy was a rock and Dad is a patch of strangle vine. I'm curious about hot pink tho.

Anyone not yet bored by clicking has my thanks and gratitude. The baby dragons, once (if) hatched, are far more intresting - I promise.

The "scroll" says the egg is doing much better now, and it has almost 6 more days to hatch - I just hope it isn't a chicken egg - amost all seem to be dragon eggs, but I saw someone who'd hatched a chicken once. Or for all I know, chickens may be of great trading value in this game, I don't really know what I'm doing, I just thought a dragon for my sig.file would be a cute thing.

Here is what it looks like now - that is, it still looks like a grey egg, and the picture will change if it hatches, but I *think* this link will give stats on how long until hatching/death, ect. If it dosn't hatch on it's own, you can crack it open and cross your fingers, but half or more of the time you do that, if it lives, it's 'scared of you' and 'runs away'



EDIT - ah - clicking it now gets the extra info to show

I think I finaly got a dragon egg. Now to see if I can hatch it.



Please give it clickys, this is supposed to help it hatch.

- edit- this was an abandoned egg -
Right now it has 36 views 25 unique views but only 3 clicks - and when T clicked it for me, the click didn't raise the click number, only the view numbers - this is weird - apparently the egg is in a fog.

Anyone out there know how to do this? The fourms don't seem to acknowledge my password, so I can't post, and most of the discusssion on them seems to be "OMG, I"M 12 too!" and has nothing to do with dragons in any case.

Is anyone (besides me that is) intrested in doing something with Artist Trading Cards at the con? If so, do you think we should try to get a last minute panel together, do a trade meet up, or what? Where - in the lobby or maybe the hall outside the art show, in the con suite? And when of course...the curse of cons, that things have to take place at specific, non-overlapping times.

Discuss...?

supposedly, my comments, and responses to my comments, show up on my 'inbox' page

except they don't

and they don't show up in my email either

i wonder what bizzare and antique email of mine LJ has reverted to? if it is even that simple

Someone gives you a letter, you post ten things that you love and that start with that letter. You can either use the next letter in the alphabet than the one you saw, which I think is the first way it was done, or ask the person 'ahead' of you in line to pick a letter. (To avoid entire friendslists 'doing' oh, say, Q, or Z. Tho that might be fun too.

I got B.

1) Beads and.....

2) Baubles (and all sorts of other Beautiful things, which was too vague to use) &

3) Bees, honey bees, bumble bees, buzzing bees, but not spelling bees &

4) Bakeries - full of brownies, and bread.... and bakalava.... &

5) Books - can't belive books waited till number five, but I've been beading a lot lately, and all the books in sight are about beads or healdry - and I'm trying to make healdric beads, and it is very distracting &

6) Being Loved - should be number one, but gerunds, passive gerunds, such odd words, and I wasn't sure if this was supposed to be flow of consciousness or not

7) Bedtime and my comfy BED. Also, the letters P&G - I've got a kid on this internet.

8) Brocade, beautiful, intricate, heavy and soft -

9) Board games - some of them anyhow -

10) Beginnings - and I'm just silly enough to put them at the end.

EDIT

I will now put the silly test poll behind an lj cut. But it woud help me if some of you would take it, so I'd have silly test data to play with. There is a real poll I want to run later.

( Hidden Seckret NinJaa Silly Test Poll Hidden Here )

And just here to be saying, you know, somedays it's just to nice a day to get out of bed. Apologies of course to those of you on conventional schedules, try to take comfort in conventional income if applicable.

I've been offline forever and for no particular reason. Then, the longer I'd been off, the more awkward it seemed to start up again. After all, how would I explain where I'd 'been'????

Today I realized that this was ridiculus. Or as they say at Hogwarts - RIDIKKULIUS!!!

So I'm blogging again.

Hi.

Mostly, things here are going well. I've got some new meds, I like them. I'm getting a case managere, I hope I'll like her (or she'll be so fantasticly good that I won't CARE if I like her)

The usual major exceptions to things going well are (of course) of the house trying to kill us (still) and the 2 new major exceptions -

*the neighborhood 'kids' over the age of 12 and below the age of 21 randomly attacking our car one time

*and Luke the dog still dying, but also, blessedly not seeming to make a big deal of it, possibly -still- not knowing he's dying, he seems to just think he's old, which he is. Just sleeping more, and still loving his kibble, and loving his people when he is awake and loving a comfy spot to go back to sleep on more often than expected.

In the more current bloggish twaddle I opend up the laptop to write about....

The Tangent and I went to Goodwill's Midnight Madness last night. I'd expected to spend today in bed, but unconscious or complaining, and instead I feel fine, just a lovely lassitude and the joy of clean sheets.

Oh, and um guilty look, we managed to spend over $80.00-ouchy- at G-W, with no funiture purchaces, no electronics, no clothes, almost no houswears, and Everything half off.

The thing was, they'd unlocked the jewerly and nick-nack cabniets _from the front_ and just has someone sort of keeping an eye that no one was shoveling the stuff directly into their pockets. A lot of of that jewelery was made from perfectly nice beads, strung together by persons either totaly without style, or totaly subservient to the taste of the times, the far past times, in which they beaded. (Alas, non of the times were SO far in the past as to be genuine vintage find in themselves.) Never fear fair readers, I shall rehome the beads! If you see me it is a fair question to ask how things are going with the beads, rehomed and other wise - I've found a consingment outlet and determined to get serious about my production levels. Beads, Sculpy and Scavaged Stuff! NOT that that's the biz name..... The biz name is *prob* "Karen's Purple Cat, or Cats" or "Purple Cat Products (or Productions???) or something like that. Y'all may consider yourselves a focus group if you like. But it was a joyous experience, 'pawing' thru those beads, it felt almost like I was putting something over on them, and yet I knew they'd set the prices. I bought nothing that I would not have had to pay more to make myself.

Also, there were some lovely cowrie/dowrie chokers, but I got just one, not really sca period, and too nice to pick apart. I think I'm going to have to figure out who it's a gift for. It sort of jumped in the pile.

We also got a bit of some new kitchen stuff, mugs and such, tho not the blender or extra blender crafe that had been the main target item (woman on phone said they had 'lots') we got there half an hour later and there were none, plenty of bread makers ands slow cookers tho. We don't need extra bread makers or slow cookers.

Tangent got a box of CD, some I think for keeping, and some for Soundgarten. One I know, he would have gotten just for the cover art, but the music might have been a draw too. Some group I've never heard of, dressed up retro 50's, posing infront/three-quarters view of the Senator. You can't read the full marquee, but if you've been there, you can't not reconize the place either. If there is intrest, I'll ask him to scan in the cover an post it - see if anyon knows anything about the group.

So that was yesterday, and today I think will be napping and unpacking. The consingment place is for my handmade (including handstrung, tho they are very excited about the beadmaking) stuff, so I'll need to decide which of my finds to put in the SCA/flea pile and what to callously plunder for spacer beads to accent my stuff. If I do that over the weekend, I might have a contract and first lot of consignment sometime next week!

But now the nap

......ssszzzzszzszszszssssszzzzzzs........

...................karen................


EDIT - I'VE BEEN SCREENING COMMENTS? I DIDN'T MEAN TO. I'LL STOP

Yes the Ambrosia dinner plans are for tonight, Thursday, 6/7/7.

Establishing our true and great geekiness, john_tangent and I ran in to scooterbird and his red-headed offspring (whose username I have completly forgotten) at the Staples .99 cent display, whilst dithering over sharpies.

We managed to natter on until efbq called to see if her husband had gotten lost in the wilds of Columbia, and then invited us to dinner. Me and john_tangent, anyhow. I'm reasonable sure her family members were already invited.

So, since we were increasing the number of mouths at table by a good percentage, we swung by a Safeway intent on pita and hummus. Distractable as we are, we got pita, babba ganush (sp????) and a nifty white cheddar soaked in cabernet until it became a nifty PURPLE CHEESE. This was a good thing.

As were the things provided by efbq herself, noodles with red or peanut sauce, fancy green salad, cider (which I always forget how much I like, till I drink it all up a a friends house) home dried tomatos.... and a kitten.... who was not on the menu, but didn't quite realize how keeping away from the table might *keep* her off the menu. CUTE kitten. A valiant huntress of the_red_dot_of_light_that_MOVES. I believe there are pics of her in efbq's journal.

Also got to see some of her pottery (no, not the cat's pottery) and discuss stage helmetry.

Anyone here who's not already on her list want to make suggestions for "Knights of the Rad Table" helmets? - high school level? They have something called a Vacu-form, and can make models from sample helms quite simply, it appears, and the helmets won't be subject to any combat. The actors would like their faces to show. Any SCA help out there?,

There was also discussion of knitting large loopy sweaters and spraypainting them for chain mail - does this really work? It seems to have a history in stage costuming.

And for the link sausage - http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070108/solnit - it is a "speculative non-fiction" - a magazine article "year in review' from 2025 - but the author decides, supposedly from boredom with writing year in review articles, to write a quarter century review. The ultimate fates of George the Younger and Hillary Clinton are revealed, along with an update on polar bears and a new use for SUVs. That's all I'm telling.

Happy New Year to Everyone




Feel free to bug me for substantive updates, I often intend to make them, but end up reading everone else first, and then forgetting.

And oh, yes, this

The plan has been, and may be again - to update y'all someday when I can summarize what's going on in my life.

Oh well.

I did not have a stroke at Thanksgiving.

Not that anyone could figure out what really was happening either.

I no longer have a migraine. But I've had my first one to break the one week mark.

I've failed my 'try college again and see how it goes' course, and need to get stuff out of my locker, and thank the professor for having given me one - there are far more students than lockers, and he gave me one *before* he saw my ADA letter.

I can try again later, the odds are, I'll have less random health shit any other semester. This one was just ridikkulus!

Oh, and I have a new email -

(my first name) (then an 's' by itself) purple (then no space) cat @ g m a i l dot c o m

And I'm trying something called Hiveminder, it's sort of like Flylady, but apparently not a cult or pyramid scheme - it does allow/ask you to invite other, and in some cases I'd like to invite some of you so I can ask you to 'accept' the 'task' of nagging me every now and then - but you could use the hiveminder to do list to remind you to remind me, if you don't like your own to do lists....

So, if a purple cat asks you to join a hive - that's me

- Karen