Bastard's Notebook

Let me start out by wishing a big happy birthday to none other than the soul of cuteness herself, my daughter!



4 years today. Wow.

Busy week, busy weekend. And it's only half over. Got to see mahariel and inaurolillium today at Brenna's Birthday picnic, which was, thankfully nice and low-key. Speaking of, the daughterling made out like a bandit this year: new trike and helmet, new toys, musical instruments, puppets, a pirate treasure chest, all sorts of stuff. Exhausting day of playing though. In fact, both kidlet and plaidbrat have been deeply crashed out from exhaustion for a couple of hours now. Me ion the other hand, I have stripes. On my head. Turns out our "emergency" sunscreen (which I needed to make use of at the park today on my shaven scalp) is sweat-soluble. Which means an accidental run of my hand across my head left some spaces rather exposed. So yeah. Relatively pale, except for where I've got some nice big red streaks.

So, what've I been doing tonight?

Posting News stories on DeviantArt.
And cleaning up the worktables. The damn stock tote's almost full again. Which, of course means only one thing. Time to fill another tote.

I also finally shot and shopped the pictures for one recent arrival- my stock samples from the League of Extraordinary Bastards! Check out the stickers!



Print quality's better than I expected, and a damn sight better than the original printings were. The adhesive seems to work well also- the sticker that I attached to Lenin's rear cargo pod has stayed firmly affixed, despite driving through the worst of the rain in the last couple of weeks. Anyways, definitely worth the purchase.

Other stuff to do tomorrow:

Hook up with bloodengel for a photo disc.

Find a new beanbag or floor pillow. Our old one suffered a potty-training related mishap, and needs replacement. (Any good suggestions for where to shop?)

Relax. Rest. Get ready for the trip of doom next weekend, which shall consist of me and a three year old driving solo to spokane to visit family.

I really hope I never turn into this as I get older.

That said, there are times when I fear I'm doing it already.

So the kidlet got her first night of trick-or-treating last night- I'll post pictures later on.

Stuff we learned: Freemont is a killer place to go through for Halloween. Brenna, despite being too shy to every say a word to anyone, managed to come off with a better haul than some of the ones I had as a kid.

It also only took two pieces of candy to send her off the end of a sugar high/crash that was pretty damn fierce. Wow. Wish I still had that kind of metabolism.

And have they upped the sugar content in cady over the last few years? I tried all of one 3 musketeers bar, and all it tasted like was, well, tooth pain.

Now to get ready to go to work, which will no doubt be a royal pain for the rest of the week. Ugh.

Of course something like this happens the minute I just get a job.


Our daycare provider just called. Her and her husband are now officially getting a divorce. Which means she can't take care of Brenna any longer, since she'll be stuck with 3 of her own kids and no income. I don't blame her of course, but I'm about ready to rape the soon to be ex-husband with a rusty apple corer. And we're now hard up on daycare, right when I'm starting a new job.

So, anyone know of a decent daycare service (in-home or whatever) the Northgate/Ballard/Crownhill/Greenwood type areas?

I think everything's starting to catch up to me physically- I certainly feel bad enough for it at any rate. Ugh. Exhaustion, plus my sinuses burn with the fire of unrelieved congestion.

so to recap the weekend for any who missed it:

The car got broken into- CD's got stolen, and we're looking at probably 2-3K in repairs thanks to the ineptitude of the would-be thieves. More on that later when I know more.

PvP: The Beatdown got released as well, to not much fanfare- I'll just keep posting about it until I see everyone else doing the same.

And this computer looks like it may be dying- our one good hard drive, which is currently in it, keeps having bad clusters pop up in different files, and a process named wuauclt.exe keeps causing any program that resizes the screen to uncontrollably lock up the entire system. Argh.

Brenna had her 18-month appointment today- 24 lbs and change, and just for 30 inches tall now. She's shooting up like a weed!

Ok, that's the major bases. If I can breathe again later and form more coherent sentences, I may even have a fully fledged rant to post up.

Oh, and jgreywolf? Happy Birthday!