Funky Cat Studio

Current Mood: calm & tired

Today was horrible muggy. The “air you can wear”. This is not normal Oregon behavior. Its the second time its happened that I know of in my lifetime of living here. Its a suffocating air. I don’t know how anybody can live in it.

That aside, we were rewarded by a lovely thunderstorm. Out here in Oregon we don’t get storms like, say, the midwest. We’ve had some doosies, mainly when I was young/a teen, but they are far and few now.

I sat out on the front porch eating my garlicy scrambled eggs and waiting for the storm. I had been out in the backyard wrestling with Bodie and watching the trees sway high in the air. I’ve never really seen that before. It was lovely. And especially lovely was the sound the leaves made. It could have fooled, told me it was raining.

But on the front porch I had the most amazing lightning experience! Whitepaws had just gone inside to fix up his freshly BBQ’d burger. No sooner than he closed the door, there was a -bolt- of lightning right in front of me, and I swear it was no further than a quarter mile away. Holding my hand outstretched in front of me now I can compared the size of the bolt to nearly the width of my pinky.

I saw the lightening up close and personal! I have never seen anything like it, in photographs or in real life. I was in such awe over it (I still can’t put it into words how awesome it was) that I forgot about the other half of the lightning bolt- the thunder.

It was probably the loudest thunder I’ve ever heard, or at least heard while I was outside. I swear my butt vibrated on the concrete step I was sitting on!

Then it started raining really heavy. We -really- need the rain. Very shortly after that Whitepaws’ parents came home from a little something they went to do for a few days. I had fun running between the house and their van to help them unload their stuff. I had to take advantage of the pure energy in the rain and really be out under the thunder and lightning.

Needless to say, I was soaked within minutes. I wouldn’t use an umbrella, even when a bit of hail appeared in the rain. I used the storm to wash off the thick air that was sticking to me.

Its always a sad thing when a storm passes as they are a real treat to me. I wish they can be there all night.

I envy you people in the states that get the bigger, better storms.

Current Mood: aggravated

From here.

U.S. President George Bush is urging a strong international stand against the government of Zimbabwe, saying the presidential runoff election scheduled for later this week amounts to a sham. VOA White House correspondent Paula Wolfson has details.

President Bush says the people of Zimbabwe deserve to have their votes count.

…. why, YES, it would be nice to have the people’s votes count.

Current Mood: cheerful

My third post in the past 24 hours. W00t.

I needed to spice up my blog. After a few hours of searching, I settled on this one called “Options”. Options indeed! It settled my geekstincts for tweaking with stuff for awhile. Then a couple hours later… I realized that yes, I like the layout but there’s still no spice.

SO… I took one of my 3D fractal wallpapers, made part of it tiling, slapped on a grid and viola.

Let me know how you like it. I’m very happy with it myself but I want to hear about what my visitors thing, particularly: Is it easy to read and is it easy to navigate?

And as a side-note… I was thinking about raffling off some of my art. What do you all think?

Current Mood: love_all_around

Oh, another 2-posts-in-one-day post. Is this going to be a regular thing?

Katie tagged me and I’m just now getting around to doing this. I have no apologies :-p

1. What was I doing 10 years ago?
Hmm. I would have been just getting out of 11th grade from Willamette High School in Eugene, Oregon.

2. What are 5 things on my to-do list today:

- Keep working on cleaning my desk area. (only did a tiny bit)

- Do some more writing on “Adrian Meets Cydus”, hopefully get some revenge dished out :) (got it!)

- Start reworking at least ONE of my paintings I don’t like (whoops)

- Start work on one or two of my paintings that I just have basic backgrounds for. (got 2!)

- It would be nice to finish one of my Snuggles or at least do a little work on the 3 still in progress. (whoops again)

3. Snacks I enjoy:

Chips n dips. Crackers n dips. I love all sorts of dips. I love cookies and muffins/cupcakes. I like baby carrots. And some more chips :) Mmm Doritos! And Twinkies.

4. Places I’ve lived:

Eugene, OR. Springfield, OR. Canyonville, OR. Southerlin, OR. Idleyld Park, OR. Glide, OR. Terre Haute, OR. Grants Pass, OR.

5. Things I would do if I were a billionaire:

Buy my own damn house, an RV and pay for someone to drive me around (car &RV). Have people over to teach them art. Travel leisurely city to city to teach art. Write poetry from the sidewalk cafes, city to city. Help my friends and family with their medical bills. Get a pet bird or rat or ferret to join me.

6. Who I want to know more about:

If you read this, tag yourself. I want to know more about you :)

Current Mood: ecstatic

Yesterday (Sunday) I had a very good day of writing. Just a smidgen over 5,300 words! I say very good day of writing because I haven’t written much lately. And I learned a lot.

Awhile back I started a “deleted scene” as we call them (makoes?) with the super uncreative title of “Adrian Meets Cydus”. Deep down inside I really just wanted to write some straight sex stuff (ha! I always choke on that stuff) but its, of course, taken an a life of its own. And a little ways into this thing, I was like “Ewww, the sex would be totally inappropriate, WTF?”). But now I see where its going.

“Adrian Meets Cydus” takes place about… 5 to 6ish years before my trilogy takes place.

Things I learned:

1. That Adrian started to go as Rose for her pirating name which eventually turned into part of the name of her ship (thanks to Whitepaws, he found out how the rest of it came about)

2. I learned some about Cydus.

3. I learned where/how Adrian met Lonna and how Adrian ended up promising to help Lonna out of the situation she was in. (Lonna popped up in a random bar in rewrite #1 and I knew her instantly when I saw her pop up in “Adrian Meets Cydus”)

4. More about how Adrian has been shaped into who she is currently. Poor gal. I need to stop torturing her. ….. ;-)

5. About Doc’s and Adrian’s relationship. It wasn’t all pretty and sweet father/daughter like I thought it always was.

6. How Adrian learned hand-on stuff about ships, sailing, knots and stuff, rather than just from books. I knew Doc had a big helping hand in that, but I really have figured out now.

And there might have been more. But y’know.

So I’m either half or 3/4 way through this thing. She’s got some revenge to dish out to a certain Captain and a certain guy in a certain brothel and the favor to repay to Lonna.

Now I’m wondering when Cydus and Adrian are supposed to bump uglies and when Cydus disappears. I got the impression from rewrite #1 of book 1 that they had met rather informally a couple times. I think its at their last meeting together before they meet up at current times. Hmmm… maybe Cydus will run off and do his thing for a couple 2 or 3 years then they’ll happen upon each other again.

I hate skipping forward in time like that, but its not like I’m trying to write something that’s going to be published or put as is into any of my books.

Bah. I HATE the organizing part of this novel series!