The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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i like that, when people say they don't know what to say in words, because that's exactly how i feel, and especially when painting I feel free to be in that non verbal world of colours

i'd like to answer more but have to paint for the competition selection on Saturday (never did this kind of stuff before and have to hurry to have my paintings ready)
here is a quick presentation of what I did hoping I'll have a possitive attention of the jury


http://s3images.coroflot.com/user_files ... 9bSOSG.png

Wow. Just Wow, Tetraquartz

Thanks, Lelia.

Lemon, my fave is the top panel, is it meant to be one piece, or a series just hung together?

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the kid is cutting her hair off tomorrow, in a massive way. end of an era. it's almost to her ankles, actually. and three feet of it is hitting the chopping block.

now to see if she actually goes through with it. she seems to really mean it.

[later edit] Yep, she did it. She had me cut the braid off at waist-length. We then went to Sam's to have them trim the edges up neatly. They asked if she was coming in to have her hair cut to donate (I'd asked them the day prior what the cost for the trim was to be) and she said she'd already cut it. The entire staff had to come over to check that out... They kept asking how much she'd cut off and not believing it, until the cashier said she'd seen her the day before and, yes, it was down to her ankles. She still had such what they considered to be long hair (and very thick) that it took quite a bit of doing to get it in their little sink to be washed and then she had to stand on a box for them to trim the ends. But they did.

It looks really good, though. She says it feels so much better not having all that weight pulling down on her scalp, and she can just brush it and go now, or tie it back in a ponytail without having to spend so much time braiding it all. She put it in a braid while it was still damp from the cut and the braid is just thick as can be. She could easily do three or four braids and they'd be what a normal person's hair is.

I hope she's happier with this. It was such a pain for her to take care of, and with trying to work full time, taking an entire afternoon each week to have to take care of her hair was a drag on her free time. And now she can put it up without having to make sure it was exactly balanced, too.

It seems to be a positive thing. Usually a haircut involves weeks of moaning about how it's not like it was, but she seems happy this time.

hmmm, kid cuts hair, 7.2 earthquake.

note to self - be glad she only cut half of it off.

ok, they can stop now. the rumblies every little bit, and all night, were not funny.

Could be worse - at least the mountains to your east aren't volcanic. One of the big worries during the Nisqually Quake in 2001 was that it was a signal that Mt. Rainier was about to cut loose...

In other news, something I thought might entertain y'all - I've been playing a lot of Rock Band 2 on the XBox 360 lately. Just recently started a new band, staffed entirely by my own created characters. The band is called Autistic Rage. The four members are Leo, Hans, Lorna, and Temple.

ARRGH. Another with a prelim of 5.1. Normally they're not all that awful, but these are real rollers and shake the whole damned house, rattling the windows. Woke even the geriatric cat up and scared her.

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/FaultMaps/116-33.htm


Those poor people out on Calexico must just have had another case of heart failure, if it was that rumbly here and they're sitting on top of it. Middle of the night, they're in tents because the buildings aren't safe, and it has to rumbly.

Sigh.

Hang in there Nanerel! I tend to toss my cookies at the long rolling earthquakes, it is like being on the deck of a heaving boat! I am glad your feathered, furry and abundantly haired family are not living in tents!

worriedly,

Merle

we're fine merley, except for the occasional motion sickness and lack of good sleep. both the kid and i are working in buildings that are not those nasty high-rises on the shock absorbers. those things sway and sway after a rumblie, and she throws up. but we've had enough of the small ones every night to wake us up, and everyone is on edge. it seems like there's one strong enough daily to put people on alert, and it's draining. we're always waiting for "the big one", though it'll probably be far enough from us that it'll cause damage but not catastrophe to us. my ceiling and walls have definitely got some new cracks, though, yet i'm not going to rush to get them repaired just yet. they'll just re-crack in the next large rumblie.

i think i might try to go out and buy a tent tomorrow, though. just to keep in the trunk of the car in case....

the feathered people have had to be rehomed. extrinsic aveolitis, aka bird fancier's disease has struck with a vengeance - i'm doing the old-lady-shuffle. it has not been a good month, but i'm improving, i think, a little every day. the feline and the aquatic are still with us and doing well. it was so hard to say goodbye to spike. the lady who took him in is a sweetheart, though, and is sending me regular updates. i cannot even go visit him, as it's both bad for his reattachment to another person process and because he's radioactively toxic to me now. i miss him terribly.

the people out in the valley are hurting. the public drinking water system is severely damaged. the sewer system has collapsed - literally, the pipes from the houses and to the plant have collapsed and the treatment plant is heavily damaged. many homes are damaged, an elementary school roof caved in, the downtown is red-taped for unsafe buildings. the roads are in bad shape. and the rumblies keep coming for those poor folks. and it'll keep on for a time, we're told, until the strain dissipates.

it's worse across the border.