I have issues!

[merimask]

Grr!

Working my TAIL off this week.  It's the final week before Pennsic & I am up to my noodle with work.  I AM going to FINISH that New Orleans gallery order even if it kills me.  Actually I've made good progress...tonight I just finished shaping all the masks (except Medusa...I still have to finish carving that one), & I have three full days left to work on all of 'em.  

But OH what a freaking time for Charlotte's cat Dinah to go on litterbox strike.   Seems she's decided she'd rather poop & piss under the kitchen table (on the carpet) than in that newfangled cat litter I just filled the boxes with last week.  *sigh*   I spent extra money to buy really expensive corn-based eco-friendly cat litter...& that damn cat just won't use it at all.

I bought the crappy old clay litter she seems to prefer & changed the boxes back, and she's using them again (you'd better!  Bitch!), but in the meantime my house STINKS & nothing seems to be working to get the smell out of the carpet.  It's really really annoying the hell out of me; I have a very sensitive nose & the smell is just...cloying & awful.  I'm the kind that cleans the litter as soon as it's used, so I guess you can imagine how CHEESED I am at Dinah right now.  *snarl*  *pout*  I'm going to have to stop working & take a trip to PetsMart again to try some other brand of pet smell remover..."Natures Secret" isn't working at all. 

Greg is on vacation.  He's just being a House Monkey this week, & next week he'll be helping me at the event.  But!  This week, he's just hanging around...going from the couch to the computer & then back to the couch...leaving a trail of empty soda cans & food crumbs & paper plates in his wake.  About a hundred times a day, I find myself picking up after him & I have to wonder WHY!!  Why this week?  It seems like everything in this house has conspired to rise up against me in an effort to keep me from filling my gallery order.  *sobsob*  

Even Kiba!  He's blowing his coat out in CHUNKS.  Suddenly.  I've been brushing him out just fine all summer & keeping him looking sharp.  Now, however, he's making a HUGE mess & I have to vaccuum three times a day & brush him out at least twice a day, & he's still leaving pieces of himself everywhere.   Holy damn.  Will someone please tell me what I DID to deserve this kind of fun?

Everyone is pissing me off.  

Except Kumo.  He's my little kitty buddy.  Much love for  the CloudCat.  We dig eachother.

In other less annoying news, I've been enjoying brief sojourns to my new PaperDemon gallery.  Damn, that site's fun & so easy to use.  I love it.  It's fannish as hell in there, but that's ok because it satisfies my inner fangirl and anyway there is some REALLY pretty bishie art to be seen in there.   Just the thing to help me unwind when everything around me IRL has me jacked up & crazy. 

Got a phone call from David...the guy who is restoring my blade.  It's done!  I'll be picking it up at Pennsic & I CAN'T WAIT.  I know it's a financial extravegance but I just can't help having this ONE project/vice/obsession.  When it comes to these beautiful Japanese antique blades that have been ruined and junked...I just get the biggest kick out of finding & restoring them so that their beauty & value is obvious to everyone.  That way, maybe they'll go on for another 400 years.  I feel like I'm preserving history.

Pictures of new Medusa coming soon.   It's neato & fun & even though I'm rushing like crazy, I'm still doing amazing work.   I think I actually get better when the pressure is on.  Funny!

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[merimask.livejournal.com]

Yeah...I thought I was being smart & making things easier for my mom, who will be watching all my pets, because this corn litter is not as dusty or heavy as clay. But... *shrug* The kitty has voted, and so clay it is.

I just have to keep cleaning up the carpet. It's that pee smell that is so awful...it's like a skunk sprayed. No matter how much I scrub it just keeps stinking.

Eh...at least I'll be leaving for Pennsic soon. I'm actually looking forward to getting out of here for a week.

[kls-eloise.livejournal.com]

I've got a co-worker minding the cats for me, and sent Bob out for a couple of boxes of the Arm & Hammer litter I like. He brought home one 30 lb box. Not quite what I had in mind. But there's fresh litter available, and that's the important thing. I'll ask Jehan and Luke what their miracle cat urine stink remover is when we get to Pennsic. Then if it's still a problem when you get home you'll have the name.

I haven't had a chance to vacuum for a while, so I have cat hair tumbleweeds drifting around the house. I'm not sure that I'm going to have a chance to do anything about that.

I'm looking forward to getting out of here, but I'm enormously apprehensive about the temperatures. Oh well - what can you do? I wonder how the weirdo quotient is going to be this year? After I-Con my standards are different ;-)

[merimask.livejournal.com]

Heh! :-) I hesitate to ask...are your goofball standards higher or lower after Icon?

OMG I hope it's not going to be Africa Hot down there. I have no idea. This week is supposed to be hot (I'm in it now, in fact), but it looked like the temps were going to drop some by the weekend (low 80s during the day...60s at night). Beyond the weekend though...no clue.

[kls-eloise.livejournal.com]

It depends on how you define your scale. I'll say that I always thought that Pennsic was the goofiest place on earth, and Icon showed me that scadians are rank amateurs compared to fandom. On the other hand, the Pennsic exposure is so much longer that must count for something.

The forecast I just looked at looks decent. If we really get low 60's at night I will weep with gratitude.

Mostly loaded, almost ready to pull out. If I can just get the damn contracts off my desk at work I can leave with a clear conscience.