Apollymi ::||:: Dark Passion Play

I still haven't gotten my check from Seven Seas Manga, so I had to send in the "have to get a lawyer" email. If it's not here by Wednesday, I guess that's what I'll have to do. That was the date I gave them, after all.

My laptop is still dead. Completely dead. It won't even give me anything more than a swirling Apple logo. I'm still begging for donations (to kbell@katherinebell.net) towards a new one, one where I can get a real warranty -- not the crappy SquareTrade warranty eBay offers. (60 days to take effect, indeed.) Anyway, donations link:

In spite of everything that's going on, I'm hoping to have a costume done by Dragon*Con -- and have Verdant sent to Carady and Denise by then as well. I'm up to Chapter 2 in editing it, so that's a strong possibility surprisingly. As for the costume, well, that's a bit up in the air. We'll see. We'll hope.

Honestly, the laptop, Dragon*Con, and editing are my main concerns right now... and that's more than enough for my plate right now.

41,524 / 92,500 (44.9%) Verdant

This is my table for Verdant. So far I've managed about 1800 for JulNoWriMo. It's not a terrible amount.

What's bad is that I want to be working on my sekkrit fanfiction project or finishing Automatic Paranoia rather than work on Verdant.

It's funny to me that my best writing song right now for Verdant is "Girlfriend" by Avril Lavigne... but the best overall musical group for my writing right now is Epica.

I finally got up that new mood theme that I had been meaning to use.

And now back to writing. I have a minimum of almost 1600 words still to go for today. Best of luck to me!

(And in regards to Dragon*Con, Azkadellia is still on, but the Victorian dress is out... and Illyria is in. Yeah, two sorta baddies in one con. I rock like that.)

Okay, subject line was totally random, but still! We have the Prima Donna, the Large and In Charge, and Death by Cute. It's like the building of a good fandom right there. All they need are evil doggies trying to take over the world to fight, and we could make an anime (or webcomic) out of it.

So, this weekend I'm hoping that we get to work on our Dragon*Con costumes. I showed Hikari the list of costumes I want to do over the next few years -- and I think she wanted to reach through the Instant Messenger and beat me. Especially on two of them: Alexiel and Illyria. Call me crazy, but they look fun! Illyria I could even do this year; Alexiel, my hair needs to grow a bit more first.

I went in to see the doc today. It didn't even take a lot of persuading, but I'm back on Wellbutrin XL for my depression. This is not a bad thing. I got the pills today, so I'll start taking them tomorrow. I'll have to call the doc every week for 2 weeks, then on the 3rd week I'll have to go in for a follow-up appointment. Always tons of fun.

I'm also really hoping to start pulling myself out of this funk by 01 June. I want to try to do NaNoCoMo (National Novel Continuing Month) a bit: finish the sekkrit project for June, do JulNoWriMo in July, try to finish Verdant in August, then either finish Verdant or start Ash in September, and continue or finish Hunter's Path for October... So that maybe I can be set to start Azure for NaNoWriMo.

And I guess I'm going to let that it be it for now. It's taken me an hour to type this entry anyway, so it's about time to bugger off to bed. One of these days I'm going to take my laptop and leave it up there so I can just scribble at will... except then I definitely won't get enough sleep.

But first... The Un-Photoshopped Image of the Night. Because I'm better taking the pictures than being in them. Behold Roo's arse. Behold the bottom half of my Blue Eyes and Kaiba wallscroll. Behold my messy desk. Behold the blurry me.

And now bed.

Okay, first off, I'm a bit sad: Fan Plus Friend says they can't do the corset bit of my Azkadellia costume. I haven't heard why they can't do it yet, but that was the last update I heard. So I might be stuck finding a whole new costume already, since I haven't heard anything back from the other query I sent out on it 2 months ago.

I do have one idea for a dress. I like this one, but I want it with the dress black and the frill lace in red/dark red. So I'm trying to find a pattern we can edit to make that, in cotton broadcloth and lace. We might use this dress as a jumping off point and add sleeves and such from there, just extend it to ankle length in the front as well and add the front lace up.

After so much searching I may have finally found the pattern for the second half of my Maeve costume: the over-vest. And it's just Simplicity 3629. Finding the material might be a little harder though, but one step is down on the way towards it.

Anyway, my morning free time is almost over. Time to start getting ready for work. Ciao!

So I guess I'm being a quiet kitty. I haven't much to say because I'm getting ready for Dragon*Con and Anime Weeekend Atlanta.

Dragon*Con Costume Status - 01 September 2006 due date
(1) Lolita dress - 95% ready
----- shoes haven't arrived
----- bonnet still not made
----- need to hem pettiskirt
(2) Tousaka Rin - 92% ready
----- need longer skirt, must locate one in closet or in mall
----- need to purchase black thigh high tights
----- need to purchase red shinys

Anime Weekend Atlanta Costume Status - 20 September 2006
(1) Lolita dress - Same one from D*C, should be done by this point
(2) Tousaka Rin - Same one from D*C, should be done by this point
(3) Touzaku'Ou Bakura - 90% ready
----- need new shenti, so I can breathe in costume
----- need new anklets
----- need to purchase new braclets and rings
----- need to practice making the scar


This is the part of con season I dislike most: the rushing to get ready.