Our downstairs neighbors suck. Seriously. Expletives deleted.

So anyone who watches Osaka's LJ, is probably familiar with the fact that they've been mostly harmless, but obnoxious with music since they first moved in.

When I came back to Virginia, and they continued their loud music at night, (till LATE at night and not just on weekends), into the school year, I had a polite word with them. Explained that the music was loud enough to rattle our walls (directly upstairs) and even knock things off of walls, and if they could please keep the music down, or at least turn down the bass we'd appreciate it.

Their behavior last night spurred me to write this (in my head at 3:30am). I'm not sending it to them, just needed to vent.

Dearest downstairs neighbors,

I get that this is probably the first time in your life, that you have your own place, and that means you aren't necessarily familiar with apartment etiquette.

Let me clue you in. First, if a neighbor kindly alerts you to the fact that your music is loud enough to shake the walls, vibrate the floors, incite migraines, etc, common courtesy is to turn said music down. If said neighbor specifically mentions that the booming bass is the problem, tweak your settings or invest in good headphones.

If the above neighbor needs to knock on your door regarding this more than once a week, or there is a definitive pattern, you may need to re-think your living situation.

You see, there are laws about noise violations. On schoolnights, or weeknights, in most places, it's 10pm or later. On weekends, it's midnight, I believe.

If said cranky (and increasingly so) but polite neighbor mentions they have to go to work in 5 hours, turning your music BACK UP in 3 hours after their Nyquil wears off, is not the correct response. It was 3:30am, and I was woken from a dead sleep.

It's too cold to throw on clothes and storm downstairs and your music is too loud to ignore. So I did the less polite stomping on my floor-your ceiling. You turned the music UP. I did it again with more authority, bruising my left heel in the process. You finally turned it off.

SCREW YOU. Your passive aggressive game makes me very angry, and I know I'm not the only one who has complained to you, and to the office. I can't be. You have other neighbors with school aged children, some of whom also work early on the weekends.

This is not appropriate social behavior, and especially inappropriate for apartment life. I hope you're evicted.

~Sincerely upstairs *neighbor.

*The short fat one, who always looks angry, cause she has to come pound on your door at 3am to get you to turn your damned music down. AGAIN.

So all said and done, the downstairs neighbors are young men in their early twenties, probably navy boys who play bass heavy music WAY too loud at all hours of the day and night. We mostly ignore it during the day unless we have migraines already. But at night? Osaka's boy has school, and I have work. Seriously not cool.

Is.. is it really over? o_o

Well today has been interesting. This morning Christy told me she needed to get out of the house, so I got up and came out with her.

We poked about a little, looking at cats at Petsmart, and then looking around A C Moore (local craft store). I had a weird, mild allergy fit in there, and when I went to the restroom to wash my hands and face, Rissa called, and at the same time I got a text message.

The text said "Just wanted to let you know that nick got the divorce finalized for you guys! You're officially divorced now..." and it was from a local number I didn't recognize.

I sent back "Who is this?" Received, "Ti Chan" Sent back "How was he able to do that? I've been waiting to hear back from his lawyer."

She sent back "They went in front of court. It was a default divorce because theyve been trying to serve you since before they left."

I sent back "Will they send me papers? I contacted the lawyers when I received ve-" and then got sick of trying to text back and forth and called.

It was indeed Brittany. I clarified that I'd been waiting to hear back from his laywer, and she told me that his lawyer was kind of a bum who didn't contact people back. I'd suspected that the Navy had finally tracked Nick down or something, which is not the case.

So I am (allegedly) divorced now, and he took responsiblity for the debts accrued during the marriage, which makes things a little bit easier for me.

I'm skeptical yet, but I don't think she'd necessarily text me out of the blue like that if there wasn't SOMETHING up. I've not been in contact with her or Nick since July when he last texted me that there would be no money becuase he fled the Navy.

I never told anyone except for Christy, because it was so weird and surreal. He up and went AWOL on June 14th, 4 days before I came back to Virginia. AWOL of course meaning "Absent without Leave" and being quite literal in this case. The three of them up and moved one day, sneaking out on rent etc, and going to live with Nick's family in McAllen.

On top of all that excitement, Rissa is having to deal with something weird and awful, that is not mine to share, but she's been having a hard time of it. So, it's been a WEIRD past few days. e_e;;

Elli Photos

So because I've been working on Elli's lifestory, I decided to take some photos of his doll form. I took a bunch outside cause it's a nice cold grey day, and also raining which sets the mood very well. So, here are the ones I liked best.















Also, un-related to photos or writing or anything of that sort, I've been uncharacteristically impatient today. I'm trying not to be cranky cause I really don't have any good reason to be, but I'm finding myself getting annoyed about stuff that shouldn't bother me.

Like when someone knocked at the door, while Christy was trying to take a nap, and the dog got riled up and barking like crazy, and the kid was skitzy cause it startled him, etc. I was really very annoyed at the people on the other side of the door, even though there was no way they could have known how inconvenient surprise visits are. I'm trying to keep things quiet and peaceful and it gets very loud very suddenly, and takes me quite a bit to get the kid and the dog settled down again. }:[

My brown and green scarf, and Ichigo pics.

First, a photo of me with my new scarf. It took me about a week to knit it, all said and done. I started it back in January but I kept screwing up the striping, so I decided since it was self-striping yarn, I'd just go with it.

I wish it was a little longer but it's a pretty good length. It just doesn't hang as low as I'd like. It's made from a yarn that's about %50 wool and %50 silk. :] Pretty soft, and doesn't feel scratchy like some wool can.



Second, it came to my attention that no one really posts doll photos anymore. Too true. Most of my friendslist are doll people and very few of them post photos, let alone TALK about dolls on their LJs anymore. I'm not complaining mind you because I like hearing the day to day stuff too.

Anyway, here are 17 photos of Ichigo. I made the net shirt and pink vinyl shorts yesterday (I think, might have been the night before) and have had the white tank top for awhile. :]

I apologize that some of the photos are repative but I liked these all too well not to share them. :]

Working at Home Depot plus a meme.

So today I went to the Home Depot and filled out my employment paperwork. I go back for real orientation and the beginning of my training Monday 8am to 5pm. I was there for about two hours today, as we also did a store walk through. There were supposed to be five new cashiers including myself, but only three of us showed up.

I learned that I can get benefits even though I'll just be part time, which is GREAT news. And, I they also offer tuition reimbursement so that will help when I start college.

I was VERY nervous, but they seem quite friendly, and genuinely so, and it seems to be a similar atmosphere to the Walmart I worked at, which was very pleasant. And if I have the same anxiety attacks I have Christy here to help me through that, so I'll be able to work past them. Best friends are awesome like that.

I did have alot of irrational fear, like maybe I misunderstood and they really didn't want to hire me, or that they wanted me to come in so they could tell me I was a bad person. I realize it's COMPLETELY irrational, but I tend to fret and worry even when it doesn't make any sense.

So that's that. As of October 29th, 2009, I am employed by the Home Depot as a part time cashier. It may not be the most impressive of jobs, but I think it's one I can manage, and it will allow me the freedom to do school as well, so I can get started on the track of becoming a High School History Teacher. :]

And unre-lated here is the OTHER doll meme that's been going 'round.

Name one (or as many as you like) of my characters you'd like to know how he/she was like as a child and I'll tell you. If the character has no background that detailed, I'll make something up on the spot.

You don't have to pick just from the dolls I own, if you're familiar with some of my other characters. :]

Home Depot!

Holy crap, I realized I never posted here! @_@ I posted to facebook and twitter, but neglected the journals.

So, I got the second interview at Home Depot, took the drug test, and tomorrow I start my orientation (if I understood the woman who called me, correctly). So, tomorrow I will be heading up there to fill out papers and stuff, and hopefully find out my new schedule. :]

So after several months of searching I may actually have a job now. Yay!

Sick again, and self!doll chatter.

I have a ton I want to post about, but I've caught a cold again. e_e I know I'm likely to be ill all the school year, with Osaka's kid in 2nd grade, and I don't mind so much, but at the moment it's inconvenient.

I've made a tentative decision about my self!doll, and put together a little comparison. I was leaning towards Luts Junior Delf Rigel, after my last livejournal entry, and talking things through with Osaka. I like the Iplehouse boys, but the scale was concerning me, since I want my (opposite gendered, Osaka and Wotan have theirs, and I like the idea) self!doll to be able to interact realistically with my friends and families' dolls.

So, when I was looking at sculpts and doing more comparisons, Osaka pointed out that School C resembled me in that stylized doll way, in the same ways that I love about Rigel. So, today I decided to tentatively re-do his(Onigiri) eyebrows, and make him a dark wig, and feel it out.

This is what I got:


And, borrowing Christian's body (so I could more easily trim the wig, SD13 body is WAY too big for School C), next to a photo of me.


He also borrowed Christian's glasses a moment so I could be sure that his sculpt could look okay with glasses. I still need to finish the face if I decide to make him into Robbie (the name I've settled on). Luckily I did his faceup very neutrally originally. I just needed darker brows. I need to do more blushing around the eyes and brows, and I think a little on the chin to gently emulate my subtle cleft, and around the nose to make the nose look a little bigger.

I did try my 16mm hazel eyes, but they REFUSED to go in without looking totally wall-eyed or cross-eyed. So, I put in these 18mm green-greys I've had for quite some time, originally set aside for the Chiwoo I wanted. The pupils are a little small, so despite the large iris size he can stare quite intensely. O_O It's slightly unsettling, but he already isn't Onigiri anymore. I don't know if he's Robbie per se, but I'll feel it out.

I need to buy some sealant (so wish me luck in my 2nd interview at Home Depot tomorrow) before I tweak the faceup further, but I know what all I need to do. In addition to more blushing, I need to darken the lips (because due to my Black Irish complexion, my lips are pretty well always very rosy), and sort out how to do the tragus and lip peircings. Also if this head ends up being him, I'll need to do freckling as well.

I know once I finish adjusting this faceup he'll look rather remarkably like a stylized version of me. Too slim but the SD10 body is at least on the stocky side. I'm still not quite sure, but this is why I haven't done all the altering to the faceup, so that I can try and reclaim him as Onigiri if he doesn't feel like Robbie after a bit.

Once I have paid back my debts, I'm getting him a body, regardless of who he ends up being. Ugh.. I meant to go to sleep a half hour ago. T3T

Not much going on.

I spoke too soon. Most of ya'll already know I caught the flu, and then it turned into a cold. I'm mostly over it now thank goodness, but that's the main reason for my lack of posting lately. e_e;;

So, Christy's TV died a tragic death recently. She got a new HDTV, and it arrived today. It's quite lovely. It'll be a bit before we have all the settings right I suspect but I just played some Batman, trying to finish off the Riddler's stuff, and it was GORGEOUS. It looked beautiful in standard def too, but MAN is it pretty in HD. :]

Anyway not much going on. I need to go to sleep, cause I have a job interview tomorrow afternoon. I'm interviewing at The Home Depot, 1pm, for a part time cashier position. At this point I'm just hoping for anything, so I'm crossing my fingers. Wish me luck!

Oh, and Jenni it won't let me follow your blog anymore, says it's gone private.. So, if you wouldn't mind, add me so I can read it?

Foot's swollen again.

Well I think I'm just about over that bug I caught. Those of you who follow me on twitter, or have me added on facebook, know that my foot has been swelling up again. I'm not sure exactly what's wrong with it, but it's swollen and puffy up towards the toes, and under the anklebone, rather than where it was swollen and bruised back in June.

I don't think it's a re-injuring of the same sort, because it's not bruised, at all. It's sore, and puffy, but I'm keeping it wrapped (except that I unwrapped it in my sleep last night.) and taking ibuprofen to minimalize swelling. I didn't sleep too well last night due to some weird psychological crap, and excruciating pain in my left foot, because I didn't realize I'd wrapped it too tightly. That's mainly why I unwrapped it I think. I'm vaguely aware of doing so, and I must have been at least partially awake, because I re-rolled the bandage, rather than tossing it somewhere. e_e;;

It's hard to say with me though, because I have a tendancy to move, and talk in my sleep. And, by move, I mean getting up to go to the restroom, to get drinks of water, etc. I don't have the problems I did when I was much younger with leaving the house/apartment in my sleep. That's tale for another time though.

Tomorrow should in theory be nice. If my foot isn't too swollen in the morning, and I can manage it well, I'll be having a lovely adventure with Christy, while Littleman is at school. I'm hoping to be able to do so, as we both need a day out, even if it's mostly to run errands. Wish me luck!

And now, I sleep, since I must be up FAR earlier than is normal for me, if I'm going to go out. :3

Mah Herr (cause that's how I say it in Texan yo)

So.. I signed up for Flickr. How come nobody told me about all cool features? XD I've just marked on a map exact places and times each of my photos uploaded so far, were taken. So far it's just stuff from my cameraphone, that till now has been just kind of stuck on there. I love that I can upload direct from my phone by picture texting to a personalized e-mail. :] I slapped up a few photos as a test at first, then got excited when I realized I could pull everything off my phone easy this way.

I don't have it set public yet, cause I'm still figuring it out, but I mainly was posting to share this lovely cameraphone pic of me. :P

Photo-0239.jpeg, originally uploaded by rorekgwolfe.

I'm itching to cut my hair again and I want opinions. I'm trying to decide if I should leave it alone, or just cut it really short again. e_e;; I know I can't do my mohawk right now, so I need to figure out something I can do that I will enjoy, but will still be theoretically work appropriate.

Hmmn, gonna have to work on the auto-formatting from Flikr, but for a first post it aint bad.

Oh, and it has nothing to do with much, but Christy and I caught some sort of flu. e_e;; Been sore and achey for a few days now, and I'm a little worried it's moved to my lungs, but at least my joints aren't swelling as bad now.

::edit:: So while I was dicking around, I set it up so I can also update my facebook via my phone. :B Next I will try and figure out twitter, which I signed up for some time ago. I am so behind the times. It took me like four months (I think, I'm not sure when exactly I signed up for Facebook, and I can't figure out where to find that date) to sort out how to update it from my phone.

This is one more sign that I am old, by teenaged standards. Technology shouldn't confuse me damnit, I'm only 26. :[

..my hair..

I really miss my mohawk. I'm feeling that itch again. I know I need to be presentable for interviews, and I need to GET some interviews. I'm just feeling it again. I liked it, I miss it so much. :[

I was looking at old pics from last year when I was rocking it for the first time, and it looked so awesome. :[ Gah. I need a job, and I need one that might not care if my hair is like that. e_e;; I don't need it blue again or anything I just.. really miss my hawk. Fffffffffffffff. *fuss fuss*

Insomniac Blathering

I have determined that Mountain Dew tastes like Swedish Fish. Not the green Mountain Dew, the new one, the blue one (Voltage). I discovered this when we went to the store to get more Code Red, and they were out. So, I looked, and decided, "I like Citrus! I like Raspberries! I'll give it a go!"

So I did. I tried it. It's a bit too sweet for me to swap over entirely, but as a go between, when they're out of Code Red, sure. It's not bad, just.. I think of Swedish Fish at every sip. It also makes me think of the blue synthehol drinks from Star Trek: The Next Generation. I just picture Riker, or Jordi, or Data, twirling a swizzle stick in one, sipping it idly. I'm lame like that.

And while I'm rambling on, I come to dolls. I like dolls. I didn't use to. When I was a little kid, I thought Barbie was lame. I wanted to play with G.I. Joes, and Ninja Turtles, or just the boy dolls. And, I don't think we (me or my sisters) HAD boy dolls. Like, at all. I think maybe for a while, when I got a New Kids On The Block doll for Christmas one year, but I think he got chewed up by my baby sister. Or possibly Nekokoi. She chewed the doll hands and feet as I recall, alot. Also Mom's knitting needles.

No I'm not drunk. I'm just kind of musing to myself at 1 in the morning. I'm in a weird sort of mood. Life is weird.

Hey everybody!

I'm feeling better right now than I have in a VERY long time. Mainly due to a several hour long very philosophical conversation with one of my two best buddies. I'm feeling very sparkly right now, and I hope everyone is having a very pleasant evening as well.

Sorry I've been such a downer lately! I think I'm better now. :]

!@*#$% Online Apps!

Isn't applying for jobs online supposed to be convienent? Isn't that why so many companies have done away with paper applications alltogether? So, why is it, that when every website I'm visiting loads with a quickness, my application to ToysRUs, keeps timing out. e_e I KNEW something like this might happen, so I went with the little name and password option that lets you come back to your app again later. It's a good thing too, or I'd have had to restart 7 times now. Seriously.

It's ridiculous, to the point I just want to cuss about it and grumble. I'm cranky, cause I was trying to get some apps in tonight so that when Christy and I go out tomorrow while Little Man is at school, I can just relax and enjoy our adventure. }:[ Not cool man. Seriously not cool. I just want to apply for a damned job.

Photos of Ichigo

I took some photos of Ichigo today. Alot of photos actually. I haven't touched him for a couple of months. I made his shirt and styled his wig, and set him down on a doll bench, and haven't touched him. It wasn't intentional, I just.. got caught up in sewing for Chris and Doran, and then.. just looking online at other dolls.

But, I've been wanting to cuddle Ichigo again lately, so I took him outside for a shoot, and after he threw his wig for the umpteenth time, swapped it for his pink fur wig, and he just SPARKLED. Like seriously in the dark cave that is Christy's apartment his eyes are sparkly when normally they're just dark. I love my little bratty angel.

Anyway, here, are um, alot of photos. The bicycle is meant for SD sized dolls, and belongs to Christy. :] She was kind enough to lend it to me for a few photos.






~*~*~*~







~*~*~*~

Oh no! Cooties!

So Little Man came home from school today. ..Which, you know, is a good thing, cause if he hadn't come home from school, something would be wrong. :O ..But that wasn't my point. He brought home one of those paper fortune tellers. You know, the kind you played with in 2nd grade, where you wrote numbers on paper and your favorite colors, hobbies, friends, stuff like that, and then the person.. This explanation is too long. If you don't know what I mean, just don't worry about it. Some people call them Cootie Catchers. :B Which brings me to my point.

We taught Little Man how to do a cootie shot. You know, "Circle circle, dot dot, now I've got my cootie shot!" And the variations I can remember, "Circle circle, square square, now I have it every where!" and my personal favorite that made Christy laugh was "Circle circle, knife knife, now you have it all your life." Yep. You make a stabbing motion for that last one, in case that wasn't clear.

Christy speculates the Swine flu shot will be a variation of the cootie shot, and just as effective. :B

And in other AWESOME, yesterday when Little Man came home from (the first day of) School, his Mommy came up with an awesome idea! They made a cookie pizza, with swedish fish for anchovies, and sprinkles and frosting for other toppings. :] It was delicious! I took photos. Little Man decorated it all by himself!