Confined Collaboration

Since I posted, we’ve transferred ourselves over to my Aunt Carolyn’s house - my Dad’s big sister. It’s nice at Aunt Carolyn’s because she’s very nice and accommodating ....well, with the exception of Uncle George (who tends to take a more mischievous attitude towards guests), it’s been nice. I’m sleeping on the couch again (like at Grandmere’s), but her couch is super comfy. All things considered, it’s a great place to stay.

There is only one drawback...the house is rather old. It’s up on blocks, off the ground essentially, and every time you walk you hear the floor shake a bit rattling furniture and just making noise. Also, I’m in the living room, and the bathroom is on the other side of the house. So, in the middle of the night, if/when I need to go to the bathroom, I have to tip-toe through the house that shakes, open a door that squeaks and groans, and then flush a loud toilet....then creep back. Not an easy task. I’ve always considered myself a fairly quiet and considerate person...it’s kind of a blow to the ego when I can’t be quiet =..=

Other than that, our place of rest now is fairly nice. As for how things are going; I think I’ve decided to stop calling Scamp ‘Scamp’.... for one thing, I am borrowing someone else’s nickname for her, and that kinda blows. I suppose it’d be easier calling her after one of her many aliases. The first to come to mind of course is ‘Fally’. That being said, Fally and I have been co-collaborating again on a WoW Fic. It’s funny how we operate, to me...I mean, I always imagined that writing a story that relies on someone else would be frustrating and perhaps less fulfilling than writting on our own. But it seems that since our characters interact so often and are so integral to each other, that when she writes about something significant happening in one of her character’s lives it affects one if not all of my characters as well...so I get inspired to write something, even if it’s just my characters reactions to what’s going on in her story. That’s my uneducated opinion anyway. So, she started writing out a story about her Warlok, Egeus, and I had to write back. So, even though it started out as her story, eventually it somehow turned into ‘ours’ O..o’ Funny huh?

Other than that, Mom and I are both miserably homesick, as we have been for, oh, the past week and a half =..= Sure, the time spent at the hotel was wonderful, but after leaving it...I dunno. When you have a hotel room, you always have a 'my place'. It may be borrowed and generic, but it's still yours for a time. When you're bumming around with others (whether they want you or not) you're still at someone else's place...no matter how welcome they make you feel. So, I definitely prefer staying at a hotel. Still, who has that kind of money (other than Haris Pilton :D).

Oh, and we might be staying a day later than we though...yeah, see, Dad's rig is getting them to leave by boat, and the weather that's moving down might make the seas too difficult, even dangerous, for them to leave. So! Dad may not get in till Thursday instead of getting in on Wednesday. The plan was for him to get in some time Wednesday and spend the night here to rest. Then we were supposed to wake up at a God-forsaken hour Thursday and travel all day Thursday. But if he's late, it might be moved back. We are not only home sick...we're annoyed /twitch.

Moving on! Now that I've paid for my drawings (those drawings that I had commissioned...uh...about 2 years ago or so?), I only have about $50 left to my name that I know of. I say 'that I know of' because I have a huge 5 gallon jug that has a bottom full of change. It's not all counted or accounted for, so I probably have more money, I just don't know it yet =..= I told Mom that one of the first things I'll do when I get home is take that money to one of those money counters and get it reimbursed.

Oh yeah! I finally paid for those drawings! Kth-Dragon and I had collaborated about getting them done (when it comes to drawings, I usually turn to Fally, but these were animal drawings and I can only ask for so much). She finally got me the base sketches she'd been working on ...a lot had come up. She hadn't been able to get a scanner, then she got let go by her work and heck, just life had gotten in the way, and we both sorta lost touch. She finally contacted me back with the base sketches, and now that I've approved everything, I've paid her and she's going to get to working on getting them done...in color and fully done and all. I'm very excited :D

....not much else to report really. I feel like all I'm doing is killing time....I'm either killing time till we leave or killing time till Fally writes the next part of her fic O..o home and entertainment...that's what I wait for.

I guess I'll go ahead and log out. Later, Sunshines.

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