Until the Stars Are All Alight

 Just updated at OC_Art100. My table (link in the box on the left) is now 8 out of 100! Yay!

There's a soundtrack for Lost out now. The tracklist cracks me up, though sadly track two is NOT called "Monster Eats the Pilot." *sigh*

The other night (last Friday? I forget when), while I was getting back into my car after filling gas, I went to put my (rather expensive birthday-gift gold) ring back on, and dropped it inside my gearshift. (It had a protective cover when I bought Laurien, but rather than look at the unslightly hole in it, I took it off and now can see inside my gearshift. In retrospect, I should have repaired it with duct tape, because I've lost a hairband and a pen in there.)

I could see it down in there, so that was a good sign. I asked the attendant if she had anything I could use to fish it out, and of course the answer was no. *sigh* So I dug around in my car, but since I try to make a habit of not leaving my general crap all over the place (besides the stuff that lives in there, like an extra brush and scrunchies for long-haired, top-down passengers) there wasn't much. I did manage a pen with a hook on the lid, but an attempt with that made it plain that A) either the pen or my fingers were a bit too fat for that and B) I had not a chance of actually hooking the ring on the hook.

So I thought for a moment about what I might hook it with. I came up with the hairclips in my hair (under my hat at work, I hold back stray wispies with those metal clips that spring back on themselves, like these without the ornamentation). I clipped one onto the end of the other one, which I left open, and quickly discovered that that wasn't long enough. So I took the pen apartto get at the much thinner ink tube inside it. Then I used one hair clip to clip the other to the end of the ink tube. So now I had an ink tube with an hair clip on the end to try and hook it on.

This also proved unsuccesful, because A) the angle made it impossible to hook the ring on the hair clip in a way that it didn't fall when I tried to lift it, and B) there was also no way to force the clip to close without risking losing both my clips in the gearshift, too.

So then I wistfully think if only I had a hook that would actually HOOK. So I go to the attendant again and ask for a paperclip--lo and behold, there's actually a huge box of paperclips on the counter and I'm given one! ^_^ So then I bend the paperclip into a proper hook, and use the hair clip to clip it to the ink tube.

Got my ring out on the first try! Score! How's THAT for problem-solving skills? ^_^

I really don't know why I'm so pleased with myself for that little feat. XD

Dollmaker!

I made this:

That's the link to Candybar Maker 2. If you click on "List of Makers" near the top, there are other models to make guy dolls, houses/rooms, other stuffs.

I am soooo coming back and making the four D2D principles, both before and after ME. Just, not right now, as I need to skedaddle home, lol.

First off, here's the PB&J pic I mentioned earlier, the one where I was sure Claire had lost the baby... If the show had gone this way, I might've turned it into a finished pic...

Now, here, for kicks...it's a pic of Dom and Evie. And...wow...it just says it all to me.

Evie: Look at my cute boyfriend. Look. Isn't he hot? Don't you want him?
Dom: What the bloody heck am I doing here with her?

And, now, for Charlie:
 See. Once she's had the baby, ta-da! I think she looks like rock-star-girlfriend material...

OMG SQUEE!

I just got off the phone with Hobbity!

I'm curious as to how I sounded compared to how you THOUGHT I would sound. Like I told you, you sounded lower and yet younger somehow...

Here's the pic I was doodling to kill the time until you called:
 (click to enlarge, silly...and it is rather huge...if you can't decipher my handwriting, comment and I'll translate, lol)

And as I also said...this is a huge spoiler/hint. ^_^ (Take this in the context of May 7th...)