Bictoly!

[merimask]

Haha...oh holy chirping chiapets, people.  You won't believe what FINALLY appeared in my e-mail box yesterday.   Yep, the purchase order from Cirque du Soleil for the rights to reproduce this mask:

I told rumdiculous that I'd have been less surprised if my neighbor's lawn gnome came walking through my front door looking for a cup of coffee.

Here's how my family reacted.  These are the first words everyone spoke upon hearing the news.
Greg:  "You're fucking kidding me!"
John:  "No way!"
Nancy: "Get.  Out."
Mom:  "Go ON!"
Charlotte:  "Hmm.  Nice."

Char is by far the least blown away, but then I think she still had baby teeth when I first started dealing with Cirque.

Anyway it's all very cool and I am SORELY tempted to take the check and spend it on a long fat vacation on a warm beach someplace...but I know I can't.  I'll end up paying off my debts because I'm a good monkey and I'm just wired that way.  *sigh*  Being an adult sucks.  SUCKS!

It's sure going to look great in my resume though, eh?  ;-)

In other news, not too much going on.  I'm still working on Christmas-type stuff...mailing cards and gifts and such.  I have NO idea what to send the family.  We're kinda broke at the moment and I hate sending them stuff I made (I always feel like a kid offering a paper plate with dried macaroni glued to it...maybe some glitter sprinkled on.  They've all got to be sick of getting stuff I made, and art is so subjective anyway.  I hate assuming they love it).

I leave you all with this funny true Christmas story, which happened over the weekend.  I decided for the first time in a few years to decorate the shrubs out front with those neat net lights...you just drape them around the shrubbery and they look pretty and orderly with a minimum of fuss.  The shrubs, however, have grown significantly since the last time they received this treatment.  After fussing with my meager light sets for an hour or so I came inside, disgusted, and said to Greg "I have to go buy more lights, because the ones I have look like postage stamps on a fat whore's boobs."   

'Cause they really did.   I bought more lights.  My shrubs are plus-sized.  Sign o' the times.

*smooch*  You're all so wonderful!  Feels awesome to share good news with good people.  :-)

Comments

[pzb.livejournal.com]

I have to go buy more lights, because the ones I have look like postage stamps on a fat whore's boobs.

THAT is the ultimate analogy. LMAO. Even Jim found that one highly amusing. XD

Dammit...I need to find somewhere to hang my pretty pretty mask. XD

[merimask.livejournal.com]

I have to say, the "postage stamp" comment KILLED in this house. ;-) Me so funny.

Yay! SO glad you like your mask. And I LOVE my "Kisetsu" print, so we're even!

[moonphased.livejournal.com]

XDDD Oh, how I loffs you! XDDD We... have no lights here. Well, the lights we can get are LEDs and therefore cost you and asscheek and a half to buy... and no one uses Christmas lights around here anyway, so it's like, "...why?" I miss my Christmas lights! *LOL*


And congrats about Cirque!! That is WAY too awesome! :D :D :D (One day Capcom will be asking you to make Oki masks, just watch... ;) ;) ;) ) MWahAhAH!

Mermaskluffluff!! *LIXLIX* :D

[merimask.livejournal.com]

Oh I'm so sorry you have no lights! :-( I had no idea...I thought that Christmas was getting more popular (and commercially viable) in Japan, so I assumed you had lights. Hmm! Well, but you still get plenty of lights and pageantry at those ban dances so there's that.

We have lights galore here. Our street looks like an airport landing runway. Or maybe we're all trying to contact the Mother Ship...I dunno. *shrug*

Isn't the Cirque thing too cool? It has been a hell of a trip, let me tell you. If you ever want the whole sad story, be sure to ask me (because it's a saga of epic proportions and I try to reign in the emo wherever I can...it's my way of saying "I care" to my f-list).

KUROLUFF! *smooch*