![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ETA: I am incredibly behind on my flist, since I pretty much didn't get online outside of email for the past week and a half. I'm not even going to try to catch up with tumblr.
My cousin and her hubby's visit was incredibly fun. It felt like they just got here, then turned around and left! They were here for a week and a day. *happy sigh* We did all sorts of fun things! Saturday Market, Powell's, one of the Portland hills walks I've been wanting to do, Uwajimaya (twice!), Toshi's Japanese restaurant (twice!), and Voodoo Donuts (though all the homeless people who converge there for easy tourist pickings make it not much fun at all). They taught me how to play Cribbage (I'm not too bad at it...), I introduced R-chan to True Blood and MLP:FiM (Yay to the first, WTH is this? to the second), and the best part--shelves!! R-chan's husband, M-kun, helped his father build shelves just like I wanted, so they showed me the ropes. The wall next to my front door is now covered in 6 book shelves, that stretch all the way to the corner and around it to my patio door. And it's now chock-full of manga! *happy dance* I took "before" photos, and will take "after" ones once I get my prose and all my movies out of boxes and onto my older shelves, which we had to empty so we could rearrange.
I didn't do much work or art while they were here, and now I'm getting back in the habit. Skip 30 is well under control, and today I dive back into working on the Big Bang fanart pic. ^^V Clay 22 is due to arrive in a couple weeks!
One of the town houses in the neighborhood I've been admiring since I moved here is for sale. It's forced me to sit back and take a good look at my finances and future. It's not very hopeful, either. Drawback to being single: you have to pay for everything yourself. Nrgh.
And on that note, back to work for me!
My cousin and her hubby's visit was incredibly fun. It felt like they just got here, then turned around and left! They were here for a week and a day. *happy sigh* We did all sorts of fun things! Saturday Market, Powell's, one of the Portland hills walks I've been wanting to do, Uwajimaya (twice!), Toshi's Japanese restaurant (twice!), and Voodoo Donuts (though all the homeless people who converge there for easy tourist pickings make it not much fun at all). They taught me how to play Cribbage (I'm not too bad at it...), I introduced R-chan to True Blood and MLP:FiM (Yay to the first, WTH is this? to the second), and the best part--shelves!! R-chan's husband, M-kun, helped his father build shelves just like I wanted, so they showed me the ropes. The wall next to my front door is now covered in 6 book shelves, that stretch all the way to the corner and around it to my patio door. And it's now chock-full of manga! *happy dance* I took "before" photos, and will take "after" ones once I get my prose and all my movies out of boxes and onto my older shelves, which we had to empty so we could rearrange.
I didn't do much work or art while they were here, and now I'm getting back in the habit. Skip 30 is well under control, and today I dive back into working on the Big Bang fanart pic. ^^V Clay 22 is due to arrive in a couple weeks!
One of the town houses in the neighborhood I've been admiring since I moved here is for sale. It's forced me to sit back and take a good look at my finances and future. It's not very hopeful, either. Drawback to being single: you have to pay for everything yourself. Nrgh.
And on that note, back to work for me!
