Well, I finally got an image scanned in I've been wanting to post since FC, my Birthday/Congrats pic I commissioned for my little sister, Zoreta:)

She recently won the California state engineering championships by building a bridge that held more than 100 times it's own weight; out of cardboard, glue, and newspaper:P That's like your newspaper holding up a ream of paper, it's just an amazing bit of work.

Here's the link:

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3393493/

Many congrats and happy birthday, my little sis; now I've got a kid genius for a sibling:P

Well, I gotta admit, FC was a whirlwind of fun, friends, and just plain craziness, and my yearly Hiatus was well worth it:)

Met lotsa friends, including managing to get more then 20 people into the Aquatics panel, which I have been told was one of the better panels and better hosted panels:) The fact Nak and I were running it was really fun to boot, and seeing so many phins put a constant grin on my face,

There was much suiting, dances, fursuit parade, all sortsa good stuff:) And Naketa(with silverhooves, the clyger) and Solarus(The sun dragon) Managed to score 2nd place in the journeyman category, even though we shoulda been in novice(since it was our first outing with suits we made ourselves), we got told the suits were simply too good to be novice:) Now there's an ego-stroking:P

I was able to snag some *sweet* Art from Kadath, and probably some from his beloved Dragoness, Necrodrone, and they and their other family members, Ashadon and Mercy, all not only made me feel like they cared, but that they were welcoming and friendly. Being treated nicely by such talented people really blew me away:)

So now we're home, organizing photos, recovering, and looking to work tommorrow, sad it's over. But it was worth it:)

Well, tommorrow at about 6 I get in a giant flying Tylenol and head to the furry mecca that is FC '10, looking forward to pouncing many friends, hugging others, and making a general party out of myself:)

Incidentally, my little sister Zorita is having her birthday very soon(I forgot the date, but then I've been up since 3 this morning), and I want to wish her a very happy one, maybe pick her up something at the con:)

I look forward to returning and giving you all hugs if I meet you, and long distance hugs if you couldn't make it this year.

May all your wishes for the next year come true: year in review post to made next year:)

Well yesterday was my Birthday: this phin turned 29 years old:) And many thanks for Elenairum and Drakkor for Remembering, as well as my family, my mate Naketa, our pet Taku, and Taku's mom sabra for a wonderful celebration!:)

The day didn't start off too auspiciously, with my having worked a 10.5 hour shift at work the day before and getting called in *again* halfway through getting a birthday present from Naketa *blush*, and having to go in despite having requested the day off.

It went well from there though: My managers were so happy with my job on Black Friday helping customers they're treating me to lunch at a place of my choice(Gotta check and see how expensive some of the local places are), and they'll be giving me more hours, which means more money for FC(yay!).

After that, I got home in time for a nummy steak dinner my family here had prepared, complete with a sinfully good chocolate cake with peanut-butter icing:P I also got a nice card from my Family back in CA, including a hand-made pop-up card by my kid genius little sister, Zoreta(recently won the regional championships in a bridge-building contest using only cardboard and paper), a nice bookmark from my other little Sis, A book Nak bought me which details the History of the millenium Falcon(Geek alert!:D), and a laugh out loud card from my parents:)

Combine that with all the hugs I could want, and it was a pretty rocking B-day:) I wish you all just as much merriment and happiness on your own birthdays, and many more to come:)

Well, this past friday happened to be our beloved Takumori's Birthday, and we had a lot of fun:) We got to indulge in a nummy Ham, Spice-cake, and treat him to seeing 2012 at the premier.

The movie itself was a lot of fun, good SFX, and some good story too, definetely worth the watch:)

Saturday saw us simply enjoying ourselves, with a good friend, CloudChaser, joining us for some running around the neighborhood with a rickshaw we got ahold of.

It's been, heck, at least 2 and a half years since we got taku in our Family, and I have to say I don't regret it one bit, he is everything we could hope for and more, and cheers us immensely:)

Happy birthday dragon... you deserve every thank you and bit of love you get, and a thousand more besides:)

Well, the day after our anniversary(yesterday) was also my Dad's B-day: I'm not going to post his age, but lets say he was in his 30's when he got around to having me with mom;)

Right now he's still working 50+ hours a week for the crucible of evil known as Clear Channel(of you want stories, boy, do I have loads), and even after all this time still has a sense of humor and wonder at the world around us. He's also not fully embraced, but accepted, nak and I, and I can't thank him enough for that:)

Among other accomplishments, he's built a mobile radio station out of a semi truck for half a million *under* budget, designed a portable satellite dish more powerful than those 50 foot wide jobs you see outside of Many TV studios, built something which got him and the First FM station in the city of Angels thrown out of the church basement they were in, and so much more:)

Happy Birthday dad, you've gotten a lot of years on this planet, many more to come, and you've accoplished more than many have in multiple lifetimes:)

for more fun, check his website: http://www.hottips.org/

Well, I managed to make Naketa nearly cry happy tears:)

On saturday, I was able to pull a surprise renewal of the vows, in front of about 30 people from the wedding, with our friend Chris being the priest, as he did at the first wedding:)

Nak was utterly clueless until I was kneeling in front of him and asking, and he said the same thing he did when I asked the first time "You Sweet Son of a B****!"

Amidst much laughter, we re-took our vows, the entire thing catered by a wonderful friend of ours, who even made an orca and dolphin wedding cake!:D

Come today, our official anniversary, he shows up at my work with a dozen roses and strawflowers in a vase, a Happy anniversary balloon, and a sweet card, making me turn blush-red in front of ym manager, two co-workers, and three customers! A little old lady said I must have a very special wife as he was standing there, grinning ear to ear, and I simply nodded and replied I was very lucky *chuckles*

I had every third customer before I clocked out asking me who the flowers were for, and one of my coworkers asked why she can't meet any straight men that romantic *grin* my response was to immediately buy some dark chocolate covered espresso beans, Ghirardali chocolate, and make him all grins:)

And after *that* he picked me up from work and treated me to olive garden! Much laughter, love, and blown kisses sneaked when no-one was looking followed, and we both got the sparkly eyes looking at each other, doing everything we could not to just kiss across the table:)

It's been 10 years we've been mates, 2 years since we've been married, and the magic is even stronger now then when we met. Thank you Gaia, Luna, Helios, and all the stars for my orca, I will never grow tired of him or knowing how lucky I am to have him!:)

Now to just try and turn the sparklies off: they scare the cat:P

Or She'll have a parrot shag your neck:P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T1vfsHYiKY&feature=player_embedded

I'm sorry, this got posted as FA's Link of the day, and I couldn't resist sharing:)

Well, I have to thank the bunch of you who expressed sympathy and warm wishes for my family: they are safely home, house unburnt, though the surroundings hills look like a moonscape. It looks like the worst of the damage is ash covering everything, so they'll have my little sister zoreta slaving away to get it clean: Ah, manual labor;)

On the bright side, We got to get visited by two local phins and friends of ours: Zhwazi and Pyrophin!:) They met us at a club on Saturday afternoon, and we had fun well on till midnight before heading back and showing them the house: they got to sleep in our two big, poofy couches, and we just sat and chittered all the rest of sunday: overall was very good indeed:)

Work is giving me less and less hours, though it's true for *everyone* there.. I'm among the only two non management getting more then 20 hours a week. Add to that, they 'accidently' sent me an extra bonus check, which extra house costs immediately ate, so now I have to pay them back the overage over 4 weeks, which is cutting my income even more. Dang, retail sucks:/

At least I have my orca, our dragon, his mom, and the fabulous fox wynd to keep me laughing;)

*hugs and loves to all*