mooncat_chelion: (wandering mind)
I swear, it's gotten to the point that the merest thought of a holiday-type family gathering is stressful as hell to me. Thanksgiving is next week and I already am getting anxiety over it.

Hell, the annual office party is next month and that gives me agita for weeks before it. But the food's good, at least. Thanksgiving food also is. I just don't do well in crowded situations.
mooncat_chelion: (cat haiku)
I think I may have discerned a pattern to Prince's behaviour and how it relates to his vomiting. Lately, he seems extra needy/clingy/attention whore-y not too long before he throws up. Granted, he's always been a bit of a needy cat, but it seems to be more so when he's getting ready to hurl. I'll have to see if it really is a pattern, or if the last few times have been just coincidental timing.

His neediness at 3am is another matter entirely. I swear I haven't slept a while night through in years. Ah well.
mooncat_chelion: (joy)
As previously mentioned, yesterday hubby and I celebrated 10 years of marriage. We went to Morimoto's in Philadelphia, wherein we had eaten some years back. Once again, we tried the Omakase menu, essentially you have no idea what they will bring you, stuff just sows up at your table (with dietary restrictions and allergies taken into account) Our food was excellent, as part of my selections I was given a roasted octopus tentacle which wasn't bad, though the suckers were weird. Also, a tinycrab(tm) to be eaten whole. Hubby did, because I could not, and pronounced it "reaaaly crunchy but not bad". All in all, a very good meal.

Today, I had to go into work for a few hours to get caught up on some stuff, and managed to get a fair amount done. It's a lot easier without the constant interruptions that my normal workday brings.
mooncat_chelion: (mlp-boss)
Short post today *and I skipped yesterday. Stupid addictive games* to say I'm off for the evening. Is mah 10 year anniversary (though we've been together ~23 years) and we're gonna go have some fun.
mooncat_chelion: (girl gamer)
Didn't post yesterday, and that's fine. Spent the evening getting hooked on The Witcher. Already I see a problem, soo many quests. Must..complete them all.

Started on preliminary preparations for a trip to Ireland with my sister this coming Spring. *stress*

Owie

Nov. 6th, 2017 08:39 pm
mooncat_chelion: (blah)
Headachey today, so not much to say. I kinda want to continue with The Witcher a little before bed but it was hard enough to stop yesterday in time to watch The Walking Dead. So It's fair to say I'm liking the game, now that I have to combat system confusion sorted.
mooncat_chelion: (cybertooth/geek/computer posts)
I ended up finishing Ori and the Blind Forest last night, and I'm not going to lie, the ending made me tear up a little. Granted, over the past few years, rather a lot of things have. I never cried much, if at all, as a child. Kept it all hidden away. It was safer. Never let the bullies see you cry, that just makes it 10 times worse. But now, I guess I'm making up for lost time, because the Bioshock games got me, the ending to Half-Life 2, Episode 2 (curse you Valve, learn to count to 3! Oh, who am I kidding, you never will) Some commercials, especially the infamous Sarah McLachlan ASPCA ones, etc. Blah.

So, my choice for the next game to sit and curse at the screen is the first Witcher, Enhanced Edition. Let's see if this gets me all teary or not.



Great game, Ori was, I highly recommend it, especially if you dig platformers, like I do. I played the Definitive Edition, which had a few added skills and areas.
mooncat_chelion: (girl gamer)
There's a fine line between learning a level and the various traps by dieing again and again and thus refining your technique, and doing it too many times where you start to make stupid mistakes.

I'm at that point in Ori and the Blind Forest, an indie adventure-platformer. Don't get me wrong, I've been loving the hell out of this game, the music's great, the images, the story...I've been chugging away at it for a while now. Technically I'm only a little over 27 hours into it, but often a week might go by without me having time to sit and curse at the screen. (It's a challenging game)

I may have to reluctantly set my controller aside and let my head rest, though it seems every time I do that, I pick it up again not five minutes later. I'm on the final escape, and have made it almost to the end twice before getting killed. I may use a trick I tried earlier, on an equally frustrating escape level, turning the music off. It creates such a sense of urgency that I sometimes mash the wrong buttons while trying to avoid the creature hell-bent on killing me.
mooncat_chelion: (chi types)
I'll confess something: I'm actually pretty bad at emails. I don't check the main account, sometimes for days, and when an email pops up that should be answered, sometimes I take rather too long to do it. (Unless, of course, it's work related or important in that way)

But then, I find myself wanting a quick response from the recipient. Sometimes, it's worse when I have delayed replying to the original email, I mean, I can't honestly urge the other person to hurry up when I dithered and took as long as I did. But yet, I do. Part of being human, I s'pose.
Maybe that's why Mary-Sue/Gary-Stu type characters are so prevalent in fiction: they're the perfection that we want for ourselves that we know we lack.

*sighs and hits refresh on her email account*





Also, saw Thor: Ragnarok today. Much awesomeness.
mooncat_chelion: (blah)
Having only been a Netflix user for a few months now, the novelty of having a complete season's worth of a show available all at once has still not worn off. However, with it comes a twofold problem. The first is the urge to power-binge and watch everything right then and there. Many people seem to indulge in this, which brings up the second problem, the inevitable online spoilers.

Already I've had to mute someone on Twitter because he kept mentioning details from Stranger Things in his feed, details from episodes that I hadn't gotten to yet. And this was on the second day. Oh, just stay off social media, some people would say, and then you won't get spoilers. With as pervasive as such media is in this day and age, I'd be cutting myself off from many other things were I to avoid it until my viewing of the show was complete. (I have 3 episodes left) I can see avoiding it for a day or two (I have in the past when I wasn't caught up to Game of Thrones or The Walking Dead, but going dark for a whole season? Impractical.)

While I respect that some folks enjoy bingeing on a show, the rest of us shouldn't also be forced to in order to maintain some small element of surprise at the events, stories, plot twists etc. I'm not saying anyone who has seen an episode that the rest of us haven't shouldn't say anything for months, just...maybe a few days? Just to give the rest of us schlubs who don't have the time, or the inclination to spend an entire day doing nothing but watching a show a chance to, you know, watch the show?
mooncat_chelion: (don karnage)
*dusts off the place*

Hello Dreamwidth, long time no see. I figured I'd kick off this attempt to participate in NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month) by sharing my wibbly stress about a decision I just made, after taking a month to deliberate.

You see, I finally decided...to accept the invitation given to me to become Art Show staff at Anthrocon. 0_o. Help me.

It would be a lot of responsibility, and while I have my own personal issues with any perceived position of "authority" and a near pathological fear of being wrong or doing the wrong thing, I've also spent several years putting in a lot of hours at the art show simply because I like to help.
I suppose we'll see how this goes.

I also may have tipped off a patient at work about the nature of my fandom, as I was commenting on the Hamster Princess book his daughter was reading. I mentioned buying various Ursula Vernon goodies at a convention, he asked which one, and I replied....Anthrocon. He mentioned he'd heard of it. Hopefully, only good things. *wibble*
mooncat_chelion: (cybertooth/geek/computer posts)
This is -not- how I envisioned my Friday evening. *changes password after password after password* Everywhere. All the passwords. Bleh.
mooncat_chelion: (smiley/content)
So I'm up to season 4, the current one, in Steven Universe and still quite enjoying it, with 15 more episodes to be completely caught up (but I've already seen a few already on tv prior to this binge). Some of the songs are goofy, and I suspect, deliberately bad, but a few I really like, for example this one is my current earworm. (not sure if it's my computer that's being weird, or youtube itself but sometimes when you click the link the image is blacked out. Just refresh it if so, and it should work)

Pearl (the one singing for those who haven't seen the show) is rapidly becoming one of my favourite characters. Oh, she's fussy, neurotic and a bit egotistical but that's what makes her interesting. I like that all the characters are flawed, and have issues to work through. Perfect characters are boring. Granted, too many flaws also makes characters unappealing, but I think the show's creators have struck a nice balance.

Also, Lion is awesome. :)
mooncat_chelion: (tochiro)
So, recently I started watching Steven Universe, as they were playing a bunch on Cartoon Network last weekend. I'd seen the odd episode here and there, and some clips on YouTube and finally sat down in earnest. Much of what I saw last weekend was out of order, and missing episodes but that was enough to cement my interest. I'm currently working my way through the first season, in order, and very much enjoying it. They pack a lot of adult(not sexual per se, just adult...but on the other hand, some of those fusion dances...0_o) themes and messages in to a show comprised of 12 minute episodes. Yup, call me a fan now. :)
mooncat_chelion: (mlp-boss)
Today was reasonably productive, got the bathtub caulk somewhat replaced (I scraped out the old stuff, hubby applied the new). Somewhat in that I didn't have to replace all of it, which was good. It also smells rather vinegary. Got meals cooked, laundry done, dishwasher unloaded and refilled, even walked to the nearby park and back. I really need to get new sneakers, these ones have been nothing but annoying since I bought them.

Now to continue my archive dive of Skin Horse.
mooncat_chelion: (Mal-curseyou)
It snowed on the weekend, now it's going to be around 60 tomorrow, then snow again(possibly) this weekend. Wish the weather would make up its damned mind. It would also be nice to not wake up with a migraine looming, but I was able to take something this morning around 4 am and it stopped it, but it's lurking again , I can feel it. Blarg.

I suppose I should see about setting up the doctor's appointment that I meant to do once I got my new insurance cards, but it looks like Horizon sent me two dental cards, for the pediatric plan I don't need(but it's attached to the health plan so I get it whether or not I have kids), and can't get rid of.

Bah.
mooncat_chelion: (walken)
As evidenced by the title, I decided to spring for a paid account. Yey, I has my icons back. Very slightly miffed that I could use neither my Discover, nor the Amex gift card(but I know those can be fussy, so I wasn't overly annoyed) but my debit worked.


Cleared the snow(we got 7-ish inches on Saturday), like a boss...well, maybe High ranking management since I didn't do it all but I got the long ass sidewalk, the front walk and about half the driveway and the two cars. Hubby got the rest. Not that it matters too terribly much because it's supposed to be 59 and rainy on Wednesday and this will all be gone. Though it was nice that a couple of guys driving around in a truck, with a plow on the front, did stop to see if I needed help when I as working on the sidewalk. And the neighbour across the street was out on his front-end loader helping clear some of the side streets.
mooncat_chelion: (mlp-boss)
Well, I completed one of my intended goals for today: going to the store to buy a few planners, one for work and one to track Prince's food, medicine and, kinda grossly, but his puke episodes as well. Never did get to A.C. Moore to pick up frames for the assorted arts in need of such. Ah well. Might aim to get that done Saturday if I feel like bothering, otherwise next Friday.

Had a nice meal at Cap'N Cat's, a seafood place in Franklinville, NJ, with hubby, and [livejournal.com profile] lowen_kind. Soo much crab and shrimps and mussels and clams (which I didn't eat).

Bleh

Jan. 4th, 2017 08:38 pm
mooncat_chelion: (sick)
Kind of have that "sort of maybe coming down with something a little" feeling. Stupid sniffly coworkers. I doubt it will amount to much, I rarely get much past a light sniffle, if I even get sick at all.

Still, bleh.
mooncat_chelion: (Default)
Well, I was going to post something earlier today, but got distracted...oh well.

I did, however, think of a Resolution (or project, since really, not many people stick to resolutions) that I will actually try to keep. Framing and hanging all the arts that are in need of such before buying any new arts. Honestly, I have close to 10 pieces that are either in need of hanging, frames or both.

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