Eseme's Den

I know that there are about two people who read this and care about dolls. But for you guys, I am selling or trading a few dolls, mostly Monster High dolls and clothes, and a bunch of Liv wigs.

I post on Dollieh Sanctuary.

Doll Sale Post

Accessory Sale Post

In other news, I am playing with a lot of Legos, as Angel's kiddo is a big fan too. Also, Skylanders is pretty awesome. I've been at my new job for a year, and while it can be stressful, it is good.

Hope everyone is well!

You can tall it is winter, from November on it is dark at 4:30 or earlier.

Happy Holidays everyone! I have friends who celebrate just about everything.

I plan to play with a lot of Legos and hope to reread MCA Hogarth's (haikujaguar) The Snow Maiden, or The Case With The Holiday Blues.

All the best, and I am hoping to post more soon.

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This is for haikujaguar for her birthday. Here are two originals of hers in my cube at work!

This is a mouse eye view!



Also, here is a link to my last post of art, in an older apartment, a framed print.

Art in the wild!

Eseme

That is what we are at, up here in Maine. Single digits, your eyes ache after a while. It was -6 yesterday.

On the plus side, that means that the amazing Gelato Fiasco was selling gelato for 38% off (1% per degree below freezing, with a caveat that if it is -68 degrees why will not pay us to eat gelato). We are thinking of going there today.

Gelato Fiasco

I have been super busy with holidays, snow, and birthdays.

We got a foot or so of snow the week before Christmas. It melted a bit. The weekend before Christmas was a 2 day ice storm, Sunday-Monday. The weekend after Christmas we got about 6 inches of new snow (it was about 8-10 where I work, and the drive home December 30th, Sunday night at 9:30 was not fun).

More snow yesterday into today. It is incredibly light and drifts everywhere, because when it snows at -6 there is nearly no moisture in the snow.

There has been much shoveling, and biodegradable kitty litter on the ice. More shoveling today, in half-hour increments, as it is still extremely cold.

I got, among other things, a zany fascinator for my hair, a lovely hand-made mug, and a book on the history of the Lego mini-figure for Christmas. My display of Holiday Lego sets won the cube-decorating contest at work and I got a $100 Wal-Mart gift card. I bought all the cleaning supplies that we use (ALL of them) and a new magnetic whiteboard/cork-board for a message center.

I crocheted 2 small Totoros, 2 tiny Totoros, a chibi Cuthulu, a chibi ninja, and I am at work on a Psyduck pokemon. I also made my niece a sweater and hat, and a hat and scarf for her Raggety Ann doll.

Visiting my sister, her awesome partner, and my niece at Thanksgiving was a truly wonderful vacation. My niece is the most cheerful, happy, and non-fussy baby I have ever met. She is also very friendly, gave me a head-but kiss as soon as she saw me.

Life is cold but good, and busy.

Things are still busy, but the insanity has died down, for now. I've got less free time than I am used to, an important project that I've got to work on.

I'm reading more now, thanks to a new Kobo Arc which is lovely for reading ebooks (I am going through my Smashwords collection) and decent for surfing the web. It is terrible for LJ comments, sadly. I need to hop on my laptop and post some reviews on Smashwords, but I've read a bunch of short stories and collections, and it is great for reading in short bursts.

I've gotten to the beach already, and hope to go back several more times over the summer (once it stops raining).

I'm trying writing again, I think, though I am all stuck at the ending of what could be my first novel if I could just finish the thing. I'm going to try working on a silly self-indulgent project for a while, as it's been so long since I've written regularly that I think I need to get back in the habit, then work on the novel again.

It is possible that we may grow tomatoes this summer.

Things are good, and I will make a friends-locked post with more details tonight or tomorrow.

And now I have an illness which is not the flu, though I got a fever and body aches and other flu-like symptoms, and is not strep throat, though all the pain started in my tonsil.

This virus, whatever it is, sucks. I would like the excitement of the New Year to please end, as I've had about 4 months of excitement in 4 weeks.

Also, if you have the oppertunity to get tested for the flu, be aware that this involves having a swab stuck up your nose until it hurts, then it is pushed in a bit farther and twisted. Very not fun.

Someday, some year, I will read the stuff on LJ. I swear.

Well, she moved. Changed jobs, moved to another town, packed up everything and went through a lot of stress.

In the middle of the holiday season.

Yeah, things have been crazy. And I've been offline or minimally online for weeks or months.

I am starting to get settled, and to catch up on things. You may get some comments on VERY old entries.

For those who need my new address, please email me or private message me on LJ. Anything you have on file is out of date!

I hope everyone has been well, and had a much less hectic holiday season than mine!

I have no idea if anyone else has been suffering as I have, but just when I got to just 60 entries back on my Friends List... LJ decided to stop posting my comments.

So I am going to be catching up, now that I have erased all my cookies and history and stuff. You may get comments on very old posts.

Oh, they are. Something is going down tonight, something big.

I went on my first walk of the season today after work, and the sky full of grey clouds made for a bit of a dim walk towards the end. I was thinking how erie the atmosphere was when a cacophony of screeches and caws began to echo across the river valley.

There were crows, somewhere on the other side of the river, and they sounded like they were fighting.

Then a seething mass arrowed towards the trees to the left of me, and I realized that it wasn't a fight, but a gathering. Of at least a hundred of them. They crossed the river and begun to settle in the trees, still making a racket that was amplified by the valley of the river.

They had settled near the sewage treatment plant, which is of course worrying. And not far from that odd door by the train tracks, the one that appears to lead into the side of a hill that has a cemetery on top. I've often wondered if the Nosferatu den there, or possibly some of the local Glasswalkers.

Whoever is staying there, they have visitors. That must have been every Corax in North America, and if they were that loud about a meeting, it was because of something very important.

I went home and hunkered down. Thankfully the sky was still a deep blue on the drive home, and it wasn't full dark yet.

So, time has just flown by. I got sick in late September, and then again two weeks later on Columbus Day. Having the death plague twice in a one-month timeframe really throws everything out of whack. I had to scramble at work, and while I was doing a lot of lying down trying to get well, I was not online.

November had two vacations - I was out of town for most of one weekend to go to a Goo Goo Dolls concert in New Hampshire. That was my birthday present (the show got moved to a month after my birthday) and it was awesome. Then I spend Thanksgiving in Nova Scotia, Canada with my family, the rest of whom were buying land.

This month has been busy with holiday shopping and taking care of Angel, who has been having terrible headaches for the past few days.

This has all added up to me barely being online or on LJ. I am once again far, far behind on my friends list, but I hope to rectify that soon.

I hope you are all doing well, and that your lives have been less crazy than mine!