air-lobster.com

Oh. My. GOD.

Ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod. Lobsters! It does irk me that you have to kick ass at the game in order to get all the prizes (and I suck), but I did get a LOBSTER SUIT. It makes me walk around HOME as a giant lobster, and I swear I’ve never been happier. *tear*

… it almost makes up for my “Go Fish” space glitching, so I can’t seem to be able to get the one personal space that I really ever wanted: an underwater apartment (without the bullshit the Neptune one has). There is supposedly a fix going to be sent out for it, but WTF, bleah – I have to do all that fishing again probably. UGH. It hurts my elbow. Can someone tell the programmers out there that the move/shake the controller crap is stupid? I like games, not gimmicks.

That’s right – Fezziwig the Dragon is for sale at my Etsy shop, along with multiple figures for cheap – around $2.00 each. Fezzi’s more expensive, but that’s to be expected, as he took quite a long while and is larger.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/airlobster

Check out the sale! If I get some purchases I’ll dig around in my craft bins for more things (I have hundreds) I have made and start putting them up, too. In fact … I may do that anyway. I have plushes and more figures in the bins, that’s for sure.

As some of you may know, I’m a rabid plushie collector. I own several thousand that I call my “Plushie Crew” – some now stored out of necessity in the basement of our home (this makes me cry now & then) and some scattered throughout the house. I recently nabbed two awesome guys for my collection, so awesome that I had to rave about them.

…see?

This is Danforth. He was a little dirty (as you can see) when he came to me, but I cleaned him up and he’s snow-white and cheerful again. He’s an old circa 80’s Boardwalk prize, so since I come from Jersey originally and I miss the Boardwalk (among other things like good pizza, seafood, bagels and… uh, jeez, now I’m depressed and hungry). What was I saying?

He’s awesome :3

AND… some money came in from a bunch of different venues for me. I shouldn’t have spent this much on this, but when a plush creature grabs me this hard, I MUST own them at (almost) any cost! Behold the wonder that is Ryrivig, the Horror.

So much creativity and love went into making him that he called to me through the internet, saying he wanted to devour – I mean, “say hello” — to all the rest of the Crew (especially the tasty ones). And if you’re wondering what shop I got him from, check out The Beast Peddler on etsy!

I snagged some uber-cheap “kiddie craft” items in the clearance aisle at Wal-mart recently. One of them was “Bendaroos” (as seen on TV! *snort*). Bendaroos are basically “wax sticks” – something that has been around for ages in kid’s crafts. (Look up “Wikki Stix” for instance, it was around longer than this brand).  After several frustrating minutes trying to wrap even one strand securely around to make a 3-D model I had in mind, I gave up and went with the “flat art” idea instead.

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BEHOLD. A crappy bird. Crappy Bird is now stuck on the side of The Boss’ (our hamster) cage for now. She seems to enjoy it, litle bit of decor to spruce up the rodent turd and pine shaving thing she has going on now, at least…

All right! I then decided to try out some clay… this is stuff from Roseart: “Fun Dough”. I nabbed it because I like doing minis and it was very bright and colorful. Plus, I’ve had some excellent fun with Roseart’s products before, like the Color Blanks. Sadly, Fun Dough didn’t live up to the name. It is air-drying, and the plastic quality of the dough hardens almost instantly, although they said 24 hours to dry. Another thing – all my little ones “melted” down into puddles! Half of these you see here were standing upright with long, trumpet noses and attributes. Even if they are very bright and interestingly “plastic” like, nothing works well with this unless you make very small, very quick, very simple things.

Oh well. It was fun trying out new things as always … and you do get what you pay for!

Geebus.

I’m sorry for not updating my site for ages, but I’ve been swamped with work – a good thing — and, well, practically the only good thing to happen so far this year. Even though it’s my damned year (the Year of the Dragon). Gragh!  Anyway, before the hols, I was contacted for work with a friend (one I actually can go see if I need to, locally) for work with a new adoptable site. Not only did I front the money for start-up with my Christmas funds, but I’m doing every scrap of the literary writing, flash games, pixel art and illustrations myself. It’s taking so much out of me, but yes, it’s fun. LOL. The site isn’t even running yet, but the Twitter feed is #Chottos if you want to follow and see what’s going on with it. When it gets running, we’ll start a special Beta Party, so you may want to keep an eye out.

So … that’s the good news. In a way, even though Pap hasn’t gotten the code running and he said he’d be done already (*AHEM*). Yes. Well, the bad news is just lovely. It just keeps going in some sort of bad soap opera in such a way that people reading this would be like ‘is this for real?’ Confirmation: yes. It’s just my life., sucky as it gets.

1) husband loses half his paycheck due to cut hours (we can’t live on that)

2) boss gives husband eBay things to sell (we get half) – this sounds positive (and I still am very grateful), but wait for it

3) heater is somehow busted, costs $200 to fix

4) garage is full of eBay stuff (seriously, it’s amazing how much he has)! … water pipes in garage may freeze at any time due to the fact that our washer/dryer is there and we now can’t run the dryer with the hose off, which is how we used to heat them before (it would damage the goods)

5) water line breaks in front yard, no hot water/half of yard torn up

6) this eBay buyer idiot ties up $1,000 or so money that WE NEED TO LIVE on my husband’s acc’t because he’s an asshole

So, number 6 goes like this. This moron buyer on my husband’s acc’t buys a ton of rare stuff for 1/4 of what the costs should be. He then complains that the carefully-wrapped packages my husband sent (they were fine, I saw them) were shit because they were destroyed during transit. He proceeds to say he wants his money back, and not only that, but he wants US to pay shipping back to us – something no freaking business in the world will do — and we have to comply, seeing as my husband’s acc’t is new to selling, so all the money he’d be making is tied up now because we had to wait a month for it… and this asshole’s complaints stopped us from getting it a day or so when we would have. He’s also said he’s “disabled”, and is laying the shit a little too thick. So what if he is? On eBay, I eat my shit when it happens to me. If you don’t pay for insurance and the auction says “no refunds”, GUESS FREAKING WHAT. Don’t take it out on someone that doesn’t have enough cash to live, when you can buy frivolous crap like this for resale or something. You ought to be ashamed of yourself, Mr. Asshole. Honestly. Saying that the packing was crap? It was in a box, with tons of newspaper and baggies for padding. What do you want? A platinum case for your fucking Star Wars figures? The ones that were supposed to sell for goodness knows how many hundreds of dollars but sold for $50 or some ridiculous price because no one except you has money to buy extra crap that isn’t food or clothing?

Screw you.

Blah. Oh, and … these were our holiday gifts to family members because we were, as I mention, flat broke. I made a few craft pieces for them :3

Corgi with Burger sculpture (my mom-in-law’s corgi somehow managed to lock her out of doors one day and eat her Big Mac, which prompted the burger …lol).

Repainted care bear. The care bear isn’t as good as I wanted it to be, but it took ages anyway. xD;

Flash splash, y u not werk gud sometimes? *hits head on desk* Well, all I can say is that I’m not gonna change the splash again. It must be the fact that I have the eminently buggy Flash 5 due to lack of thousands of dollars to buy brand-new programs, LOL. Oh well. There’s a link underneath to get to this page, hopefully folks are clever enough to realize that. Pbbbt. I kid… but sorta not. You know some folks.

Weird stuff happens to me during the holidays. I’m bipolar, and have a very hard time of things during the normal year – but the hols? Shit. I don’t get suicidal, but I sleep almost 24-7 and cry at the drop of a hat. Honestly, not saying that for kicks, because my husband dropping his hat could actually make me cry through December-January. Ugh. I hate it. During this time, I either work like a crazy woman or laze around because my brain can’t handle simple things, and this year it looks like lazy is the winner. No art, not a bit of writing have I done – only played games and put up mandatory eBay things for my husband’s boss on eBay. (He was kind enough to let us list them and share some of the profits, which was awesome).

Pfft.

So, since little things make me twig, big things make me crash into a messy pile of 5-year-old gibberish. Like missing my grandpa, aunt, grandpop and a friend from way back (she jumped off an Atlantic City casino rooftop).  Like my old house in NJ. That house haunts my dreams all the time anyway, but just the thought of it now makes me bawl. I remember all the good times, yes, but instead of making me happy, as they should, I freak out. Good grief.

I deal with this during the year by eating (hence my weight, will start being healthier in January), reading, art and crafts, writing, and gaming. Lots and lots of mindless gaming. And not that gaming is all mindless, as some people say, but I want the ones that take no effort at this time. I want meaningless crap I can just fizzle the time away with. So far we’ve gotten a few classic NES games on our Wii – my favorite, Zelda II? Doesn’t work (we have a PAL system and it won’t handle that one for some reason). I also nabbed DeBlob 2 on the PS3 the other night and have been messing around with it. It’s fun, though the camera sucks, and there’s a few later-on techniques Blob learns that have me shaking my head in frustration (QUIT STICKING TO THE WALLS, FOOL).

*ahem*

Bejeweled 3 came out in disc form with Feeding Frenzy 2 (one I’ve finished) and Zuma included for pretty cheap. Problem is, the trophies haven’t been put up on the PSN yet! So I have far more than it shows up on my profile. Bah. That latest Bejeweled installment is neat, though. There are new mini games like “mining” and “don’t let the spiders eat the butterflies” bullshit. The former is fun, the latter isn’t once you get past 15 or so. Like all minis, they get impossible in their difficulty level after awhile. After Christmas, I may have new games to fiddle with – at least, some of those boxes look like games, LOL — so I can stave off the worst time in the whole year (New Year’s). My family seems to like to pass away during New Year’s (it’s uncanny) and my grandfather died around then. He was my father figure and the most important man in my life. That time of year I become completely insensible, so if you see me around please don’t take offense at anything I may say or do. I try to stay away from other people – even on the ‘net — then, but my good senses completely poof away during the time, so sometimes I pop on when I shouldn’t.

Still selling tons of stuff on eBay (see post below) but due to the amount of AWESOME games I’ve gotten lately with trades and stuff, I’ve been lazy. No work at all, ugh! Today was the first day in a couple weeks I’ve even drawn anything. Heh.

Our heater stopped working a few days back, so we had to scrape up $60+ for a space heater for a couple days. The guy’s here now looking at our “broken” one, so hopefully it won’t be a million bucks. We honestly have nothing left – not even savings. We really need a few breaks, and I’m hoping this coming year will work out well for us.

More later when I’m not distracted by the whining of three poodles saying they want to meet the heating guy…

I’m listing tons of rare Star Wars toy sets and stuff on eBay – come have a look!

Many readers of my blog know how I normally feel about Family Guy, but last night’s episode made me sit down and make a gif:

No one had made one on the internet yet, so there it is in all it’s glory. Incidentally, YTMND seems to have created “Iraq Lobster” before Seth McFarlane did on the show, as well. Check it.

Oh and the website name is on the gif since folks always steal my little fanart blobs and such. :3 I did not create this of course, I simply edited the panels together. I’d like to see how far it gets, you know?

Erk.

I’ve been approached by someone I know I can work with (have done so before) about starting up yet another adoptable-pet site.

GRRAAAGHHH.

The problem is, the work would be so intensive, with me being the only artist and writer, that I would have to dump this one. I’m not certain it’s the best idea, but the pay is far, far better than what I’m getting freelancing. Plus I’d be able to chat on forums again (which I miss desperately).

Thing is, I wouldn’t be in charge, and I love being in charge! LOL. I’d just be the writer/artist, with no mod powers (well, we’re thinking maybe the writing/art forums, but that’s it). Maybe it’s what I need, though.