I really wans't the plan...

Sooo. I did end up pressing that button and now I have Ami and Ani coming home to me! At some point. :D Soooo excited! I dunno quite yet who I will be getting to do their face-ups, but I still have time! It is quite annoying though to have them be twins- meaning that I will have to buy two of absolutely EVERYTHING for them. And if I buy something that isn't right for them, I will end up with a collection of clothes etc. xD But that ain't much of a hardship, so I shouldn't complain!

I think I will be going to L-Doll this year, as I need to take holiday and we can go there by car. I've already managed to sell the idea to my boy, so he's up for going there, I just need to book some time off and book a hotel + ferry and off we go. I was thinking to leave on Friday so that we would arrive there on Friday evening and then we would have the whole weekend there, plus I think two more days after the weekend for more touristy things, because my boy won't be that interested in L-Doll, so that part of the trip won't be interesting for him. As we are taking the car, we were thinking that we should try and see if there were any other people from our area that are going there, as we are able to drive a couple of more people there with us. But we'll see what happens with that.

Oh good lord the adventure I had last night! I ended up taking care of one of my co-workers as he had drank waaay too much and we ended up getting off on the wrong tube station, so we had to take two buses and then a taxi for him. And this whole time, I had to keep him upright and lift him up whenever he decided he needed to sit down... I feel sore today!!! I am so not used to lugging around a guy my size. But, who is? O.o He better be getting me a minion for all the trouble I went through for him. xD

Anyway, I need to start getting ready for work, as I do have to go and be a waitress/bartender tonight. Not sure which I will actually be tonight. xD Oh well, toodles to all!

Meep.

It seems like I'm getting DZ's Ami and Ani. They have been in my shopping cart for a while now and I just need to press the checkout button and it's nearly done. Eeeeeeee... I'm scared to press that button!

Pizza's our middle name!

I found out about Samurai Pizza Cats yesterday. WTF? That is just so random. Not that anime isn't a bit random normally, but whaat? Cyborg Samurai Pizza Cats- that definitely makes it to my random list.

I mentioned in my previous post that I am now working about 50-60 hours a week...  I figure that I owe myself something nice for working so hard. So I was thinking to buy a proper camera. But then I was looking at BJD carrier bags today and came across a Dollzone one that seems quite roomy and okay looking (this thing here), and that got me looking at DZ Ami and Ani again. And I started looking into them, and it would come to £240 to buy them blank and with double joints. Then for the extra Ami head it would be £35. And thus my order for DZ (with the carrier) would come to £302. And I would be able to get their event head with that order. But I have no use for it, so I would end up selling it, but I have no idea which one I should get... Meh. But still, £302 for Ami & Ani, plus an extra Ami head and a carrier bag... That isn't that much. And I really want Ami and Ani. Uuuuuurgh!

My boyfriend just left for Poland and he's gonna be away for about a week. Me sad now. Because most likely I will have some problems sleeping because of that. Ugh. BUT there is good sides to this as well. Like setting up my laptop to the projector and using two screens at the same time. One of which spans over half of our wall. Oh yeah baby!!!

I don't know what to do about the camera/doll situation. So torn right now. :'C

Uh Whut?

Hi! I'm back again! I will probably disappear again at some point, because that seems to be what I do...

Things have been completely dead on the dolly and crafting front in my life for the past months- I have done NOTHING relating to those two. It makes me sad, but hopefully soon I will be back to doing something, now that I am working in my 9-5 job full-time. I am still doing evening shifts a few times a week in my waitressing job, so I only have about 4 evenings off in a week. But I will have nice paychecks because of all the work, so I can't really complain too much. As I chose to work two jobs, you know...

I do have some plans, as I have become completely obsessed with Fantine's bonnet in Teddie Films' 'Dream and Shout'... I really want one for myself, but I'm thinking that first I should make one for Pan, so that I can figure out the best way to do it- the loss of fabric will be so much less for her bonnet than for mine, when I end up screwing something up.

This is 'Dream and Shout'.

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I am completely obsessed with Paint's 'After Ever After'- I keep listening to it almost every day when I have the time. I have even sung Pocahontas's part to myself every now and then... I try to sing it under my breath, because other people may get slightly worried if I start singing about entrails... Mmm. Yummy.

And this here is 'After Ever After'.

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Can I say how much I hate traveling on the tube with obnoxious football fans? I hate traveling with them even more than traveling with a group of really drunk women. (I know this may sound weird, with me being a woman myself, but there is nothing amusing with a group of women screaming, and laughing like a herd of horses. It gets on my nerves quite badly.) And now that I have to travel to work through Wembley, I have to travel with football fans way too often. Not what I would classify as good time...

But on a more pleasant note, I went to a friend's barbeque this weekend, and we made cocktails and had way too much food. The steaks were bigger than my face, the bowl of seafood could have satisfied about 20 people, and then there was all the other extras like burgers, lamb hearts, and a few salads. All in all, a fair amount of food for a dozen people. And then the booze- it was a cocktail party just as much a barbeque, so there was quite a bit of alcohol. All of which was necessary. Obviously. But at least we had planned who was bringing what, so we didn't end up with five bottles of Malibu but no vodka, you know? And I got to make some cocktails for other people! In an environment that wasn't work. :D (Not that I don't like making drinks at work, I just hate having to rush making them every now and then when it is very busy- not the best environment to make The Most Awesome Cocktails.)

I made my macaroni and beetroot salads for the barbeque and they seemed to go down okay- my boyfriend at least really liked the macaroni salad, and the scandi-people seemed to like my beetroot salad (the salad was trying to be similar to the one we get in Finland and Sweden, possibly also in Norway, though I am not sure about that). I really need to find the perfect beetroots for that salad though, because the two different ones I have tried so far have not been quite right. Unless I want to start boiling them myself, but I think that will just end in disaster, so I would rather avoid that... xD

Talking of beetroots, my boyfriend decided to make me some beetroot risotto, as I have never tried it. It was surprisingly good I have to say. A bit sweeter than I expected, but that was probably because the beetroots used were quite sweet. But still very good. Definitely want to have that in the future as well. And I swear, my life does not revolve around beetroots. It just happens to have been a very beetrooty week.

I think this post may have gone on a bit long, and it is quite late now, so goodnight, or good morning peeps!

Squee...

Eeeee- mmeeeep.... :3 I is in luuuuuv! It's been a while since I've been to Iplehouse's website so I had not seen their EID boy Luo... *Unintelligible sounds* He's soo pretty... Look at his face, and his nose and the lips!!!! :333 He may have to become Mr. Manly, because I WANT HIM SO MUCH MY FINGERS ARE TWITCHING~!!!

Oh my god the horror, today I almost started making a story for DZ's Ami and Ani which is so NOT cool because I have no need for those two little cuties. And if I make up a story for them, I'm ruined. 'Cos then I'll actually have to get them at some point... And I can't do that! I just can't.

I think I have a sort of a thing for making girls out of boy sculpts, because I keep thinking about making a girl from Dollshe's Bernard and Soom's Lazule. They would make such pretty girls! Imagine the long face, gorgeous long nose and those lips on a girl. :3 Me wants, though me does need not...

I finally did get my boy his Christmas present. I bought him Halo 4 Special Edition, and I really hope he won't decide to buy it before we go to Finland, because that'll cause me some problems... 'Cos that's pretty much the only game I know he'll like, as all the other games out now are a bit of a shot in the dark. I could get COD: Black Ops 2, but he's seemed a bit uninterested in that, so I wouldn't really want to get it for him, as he may just get bored with it. Oh well, I'll keep my fingers crossed that he'll be too tired from work that he won't think about getting stuff. Anyhoo, that's all for today as my boy's getting back from work and he can't see me writing about what I got for him! I know this post is short and extremely squeeish, but what can you do! :P

Bye bye beautiful.

We are hopefully getting a flat!!! Amaaaazing! If everything checks out, we will be getting a studio in Uxbridge! Yay! It's gonna be a lot smaller than we are used to, but it will make up for it by us being able to save a lot more money this way. Because hopefully by next year (if we are still together and everything has gone according to plan) we may have enough money for a deposit and we can get a mortgage to buy a house/flat! The reason we are interested in getting one, is because it will end up being cheaper to pay mortgage than paying rent... AND you can do stuff to your own home! Meeeep! I hate renting as you can't fix or change anything, and it seems like a lot of the times you'd need to fix things in order to have the place up to the standards I'm used to...

I am actually feeling better today than in a little while now. Pretty much only due to the fact that we are most likely going to get a place and because our rodent problem is most likely over. I do have to say, I feel a bit drained though as the last few days with our rodent problem was pretty tense, as it was trying to chew its way through the door to get to the living room... And the shit. It was everywhere on the floor. So not funny. But it's done with  now. If you want to read what happened yesterday, read ahead...

The following talks about a rodent dying/it being dead, so if you are uncomfortable with that, better not read this. And also be warned that I think the writing may be even worse quality than normal as I don't really feel like reading over what I've written, so it may jump from one thing to another...

Yesterday the little rat died. It had been wrecking havoc in our kitchen for about a week now, and yesterday it went into one of the traps (twice, funny enough) that the pest control people left. Gotta say, that was a horrible way to go. We had been getting really desperate in getting rid of the little thing, and I had suggested before (and last night) that if we had a bucket, we could make a water trap for the rat as it was not going into the 'conventional' traps. Unfortunately we were unable to make the trap as we don't own a bucket. And that actually makes me really sad, as I feel (maybe wrongly) that drowning might have been a slightly more humane way for the little thing to go.

What now happened instead, was that it had set off one of the traps and gotten hurt- don't know how or how badly, but what you could see, was some splattered blood on the kitchen floor. Then later on in the afternoon, (after I was unsuccessful in getting it to run outside into the garden) it got trapped in one of the traps. I found out about this because our housemate asked if I knew that the rat was 'gone' (or something- his English is so horrible at times) and then I went downstairs to have a look before leaving for a viewing in London. Unfortunately the rat was still breathing at that time- little rasping and gurgling breaths with its little chest moving in and out, trying to get air... I don't know how long it had been like that, but I think it must have taken at least 10 to 15 minutes for it to die. At least. That is a horrible way to go because it's quite likely its lungs and airways were filling with blood, as the little thing's breathing was sounding pretty wet... And to imagine how much pain it was in! I have no idea what part of its head had gotten caught, because when the trap had gone off, it had somersaulted so that it was upside down and you could not see the rat's head. Which I am glad for as I would not have been able to even look in its direction. I couldn't end its agony, because... I just couldn't. I actually can't even kill bugs properly, so killing a rat? Not a chance. So after I came back to the kitchen a few minutes later, the little one had stopped breathing. By this time I was already running late, so I left the rat in the kitchen as the pest control man was supposed to call me/come over later in the day (he'd been in in the morning and had jumped in the air like a little wuss after seeing the rat).

When I got home in the evening, obviously the man had not been over as the rat was still on our kitchen floor... Which meant that it had to be taken out. I could've left the job for my boy, but I decided that I can do it for him. I have to say, I really did not enjoy it and I never want to have to do that again. As I had no idea how 'diseasy' the rat was, I had to use a stick (ex-housemate's halloween cane?) to get it out of the house. The first time I touched the rat WITH the stick, I felt a bit sick and got shivers going through me. I just felt so bad. I couldn't lift the rat up as that would've most likely spun it around and I would've seen its little face all smushed, squished, and bloodied, and I couldn't have handled that. (I could barely look at my friend's hamster that had an accident and its eye was bulging out of the socket.) So I ended up pushing and prodding the little one across the kitchen floor and out of the door. And I kept talking to it, saying I was really sorry for having to drag it on the floor... I felt so bad about having to do that, as it was not a dignified way of taking it outside, but it was the best I could do with what I had. The horrible thing was, the little thing was by this time stiff as a board, as it had gone into full rigor and its little tail was a tiny backwards J...

But I have to say, it was a beautiful little rat. Such a nice sandy brown coat with a gorgeous white belly. I really hope things could've been different and it wouldn't have needed to go to little ratty heaven. Only if it would've been born as a fancy rat, I would've loved it, cherished it, and provided it a nice big home. But alas, it was a rodent, and it invaded our home- most likely by accident, but still. Adios little pretty! I hope you're reborn as a pretty fancy rat as you were beautiful!

I have a cough.

(I seriously apologise for writing blaaaah posts recently, but annoying things have been happening way too much lately and I feel the need to vent. There is couple pics of Xian though somewhere in this post!)

As title says, I have a cough, which makes trying to stay invisible very hard. I've been up since 6.30am in our living room, in order to see if the rodent will run out of the house if I leave the backdoor open. It hasn't happened yet, though I have only waited for 1½ hours. But I think I may be making too much noise with my cough (or it's sleeping after it's adventures last night), but I can't just leave the door open and go, because then I wouldn't have a clue whether or not it has gone out. But I do have to say, the rodent is getting extremely desperate. It's getting bolder and bolder, because I think it's starting to get really hungry. Last night it had tried to drag the cloth we keep outside the kitchen door, on the living room side, into the kitchen. And it had somehow managed to make stuff from on top of the fridge fall onto the floor- and this isn't one of those tiny little fridges, it is a proper fridge-freezer so it stands taller than me! Though that doesn't take too much. But it is almost the same height as my boyfriend.

I've mentioned that there is mold in our house right? It seems to be a horribly normal thing to have mold in the houses in England for some reason. This is the second place where I have rented and where mold just appears any time there is even a tiny bit of moisture in the air. I'm starting to get quite worried about my health as mold is massively bad for you- it can cause so many problems, and as I'm already someone who has allergies, I don't want any more problems like asthma for example... I'm really hoping that I am just a bit sick or imagining things, because recently I have started feeling dizzy when I sit down upstairs to do stuff on my desk. One of the worst places (in terms of mold) is our bedroom, as there is constantly some on the ceiling (there used to be a leak in our bedroom, so I wouldn't be surprised if there was massive amounts of mold between our ceiling and the roof). And you know that if you can SEE the mold, you've already got a biiiiig problem with it.

For some reason, I'm unable to do some changes to my blog layout- I spent some time yesterday choosing what I wanna do with it, but then I was unable to edit things in the layout section. Quite annoyed about that. So the blog will look like this until the damn thing starts working.

Picture time! I failed to upload the pics to my blog in a timely fashion, but better late than never! I had a go at taking pictures of Xian on my desk during the evening to see if I could use my desk lamp as a light source. It turned out a bit... so-so. I've only got three pictures because I wasn't very happy with most of the pictures. And as you'll notice, these ones have been edited quite a bit as I wasn't a big fan of them.

Xian has two wigs at the moment- her present day hair (red) and the hair from olden days (white). I really want to make the white one more presentable as it is a pain atm, because the weave is LIGHT BROWN instead of white, so you can see it way too much. Isn't she pretty in white though?

Damn. I dunno what I'll be having for breakfast. Cold pizza? I can't heat the pizza as we don't have a microwave and the oven is rodent-central. Pfffff... We've resorted to eating takeaways only for dinner (and lunch, and now possibly for bfast) since we realised where the rodent likes to hide. Please pest control people, come frigging save us!!! I want a home cooked meal!!! Done in a different oven though. Ugh. That shizz needs to go away. I'm off to feed myself now.