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Well, the past few weeks have been rather busy.

To anyone that has been waiting on icons, I apologize, I feel terrible for the wait you've been through, I thank you sincerely for your patience, and starting tomorrow I will be making a big push to finish as many as I can as quickly as I can. In the future I'll probably not open up for more than 5 at a time... @___@

About two weeks before Sakuracon, my buddy Jim came over to my house and helped me tackle the 2nd bedroom that had for years functioned only as an overstuffed storage room. He helped me sort and empty boxes from when my father and I had moved into the house several years ago and never got around to unpacking due to lack of motivation and not making the time. Most of it turned out to be give away and garbage, and I found three giant boxes of old clothing, 90% of which I am likely to give away. I look forward to going through it when I return from Seattle.

What is important is that we got the couch unburied, the desk reassembled, and the TV and other electronics moved from my bedroom into what has been renamed the entertainment room. It only needs a few more hours of sorting, moving, and cleaning before it is ready to have friends over. I'm very excited. I'm also excited that my dream for the bedrooms is starting to solidify.

Originally I wanted one room for spending time playing, watching movies, and using the internet in, and another with nothing but books, clothes and my bed for relaxing and sleeping. That never happened because we had so much junk from the move that one was commandeered for storage purposes. Now that it's starting to come together, I'm starting to look at upgrading the size of my bed. Right now I only have a twin, which is a little small when Jasper comes to visit.

Fortunately I already have a full size futon mattress that previously belonged to my brother back from when I lived with my mother and was going to high school. It's been in storage, but it's been protected from day zero with a hypoallergenic mattress case, so it should be fine. What's even better is that it has a three inch memory foam mattress topper. The awesome part about this is that it costs about $100-$150 online, I don't have to pay a penny for it, and it makes the mattress feel 10x softer. :D

So, hoping to get my father to buy me a nice full size bed frame and accent night stand(s?) as a birthday present.

OH THAT'S RIGHT.

It was my 22nd birthday on the 5th. :D

I was so happy I got to spend my birthday weekend with Jasper. She came down on Wednesday the 4th, and stayed all weekend with me for my birthday and Sakuracon before leaving earlier today.

Man Sakuracon was exhausting for some reason. More so than usual. Too bad I missed preregistration and had to wait for four and a half hours in line just to get my badge. By the time I got my badge and into the convention space, I was tired and had missed all the interesting panels I wanted to go to that day.

The rest of the con was pleasant enough. We stayed at Ed's dorm each night of the con, and even though I brought along mats to sleep on it was still rather uncomfortable on the floor. (I just fell asleep in front of my computer for a few hours while composing this. So much nicer to be in a real bed again.) At ed's dorm we ended up sleeping in each day until about 2pm, so it was a very lazy year at the con for me. Got to hang out with a bunch of other furries, and ran into some old friends, one of which I never expected to speak to again, let alone have them seek me out.

Today I saw Jasper off on her bus home to Canada, and drove around uselessly. I forgot stuff behind at people's places, but did not realize until I was most of the way home and had to turn around. Anyone else do that? So although I was planning on going home and getting icons done tonight, I ended up driving my sisters to and from Taekwondo practice and am spending the night in Seattle. I am not looking forward to getting up early in time to make my dentist's appointment. I'm getting two fillings, one of which I've needed for the past two years when I didn't have insurance. Fortunately it had no major change in such a long time.

Tomorrow I will be home, and after the dentist appointment I'll finish as many icons as I can, which will depend on how I'm feeling after the appointment.


Oh, and I didn't spend much time in the AMV theater this year, or see the contest, which I was bummed about, but oh well. However I did see the "AMV's that made us buy the music" category, so here's one which has a really damn good groove. Possibly one of the best dance AMV's I have seen to date. Hope you enjoy~

*clap* He-YAH!


Song: Helena Paparizou - Mambo

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