Funky Cat Studio

So I’ve got a new laptop, and w hat a sexy beast it is. Oh? I haven’t been around much, says you? Well gee I dunno why…

MAYBE BECAUSE NOTHING FREAKING WORKS so I’ve been spending EVERY WAKING MOMENT trying to FIX things?

Yeah, that could be it ^-^

To be fair: I’m using a fresh Fedora Core 7 install. And the laptop is new, so you know… I just gotta give it time to settle in, I suppose.

But still >.<

I’ve been croching my 2nd amigurumi ever. I love those little guys, but my crochet skills are shaky, really. I bought a handful of patterns for things I really liked, to get me to better learn crochet, and it’s worked out quite a bit. Yay for affordable patterns :) There’s more I’d like to get, but the more I play with the crochet, the more I realise I can probably easily make my own amigurmi.

Oh yeah, amigurmi (for those not in the know) is Japanese for crocheted animals. Or something along those likes. They’re really neato. There’s also amigurumi objects, such as coffee cups and various foods ^-^

Script Frenzy? Yeah, I can’t get anywhere on it! I’m having one helluva time thinking in scrips. Rayna’s Story? Well, I started typing it up on the laptop so I can work on it, and I’ve found an area in the beginning that I need to add to to clarify what’s going on.

The Poetry Book? I’ve got the pages laid out with one poem per page (thanks Jayn and others for encouragement in that!). Its bothering me that I don’t have much control over the page numbers. I’d like to have the page count start whith the first poem, know what I mean? But with the way its acting, by the time the first poem hits, its going to be page 4 or 5 or so >.< so I gotta fiddle with OpenOffice.

As for my sad attempt at gardening, my alyssum seems to be done blooming. It has been for awhile. And I’m sad about that.

My strawberries are producing crap. Plant #1 has given me 2 berries (yum!) and plant #2 has given me 1 berry (it was slightly tart) and plant #3 has not given me one damn edible berrie. It keeps making these itty bitty deformed/retarded berries. I rip them off as soon as I see them. It doesn’t seem to be helping at all.

My landscape daiseys seem like they haven’t been too active lately either, but then again, I’m not outside much.

As for my piano development, I discovered arpeggios! (I’m self taught, can you tell?). And it was quite by accident. I started teaching myself the minor and major chords (A thru G) and went “Hey, what happens if I play one note at a time?” and before I knew it I was making funfun goof off music. It was like the heaven’s opened! I understood music on a whole new level!

And I can play Colorblind from Counting Crows in my sleep. No I won’t send you the sheet music, I learned it from YouTube ^-^

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I think that’s about it. Oh, I did join up with this card selling place, check out my java card app to the right. buy my cards and I get .50! Ohhh :) (yeah I’ve only got one so far…)