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I sent off the last payment on my auto loan today!! One less bill in my life.

I mentioned on tuesday about my love/hate relationship with vicoden. It's now full blown hate. I was being careful, taking half doses, taking with food. But I still got an upset stomach and spent 30 hours throwing up and unable to even keep down water. It got bad enough I was getting ready to find and visit and urgent care unit for the dehydration I was starting to suffer. It finally ended at 4:30am on thursday when I woke up from a nap, with no nausea and desperately thirsty. Slowly got to easy back into liquids and foods, and I'm back to normal. But I will definitely need to talk to my dentist about different pain meds, because I'm not going anywhere near vicoden again.

Been too long since I posted.

In the basic news the new cat who I named Smudge is slowly fitting in and I've already caught all three cats sharing the bed, cleverly arranging themselves so there's no room for me. Smudge is actually older then first estimated. The vet places her at 2-3 years old based on her teeth, but allowed me to fudge her age on the Banfield records so I could put her on a kitten wellness plan which covers getting her neutered. SHe has a vet visit on the 15th to begin her on her vaccinations.

Christmas in Ohio went ok. Except learning that my uncle and grandfather are part of the Tea Party movement, so much respect lost in that instant. My grandmother loved the blanket I made for her. All the same I was happy to come home to Texas where typically warm and I have a soft bed.

Then on Jan 1st we had Christmas exchange for the Texas. Mom and Dad managed to surprise me with a new Wii(after I had bought a refurbished one. Oops) Luckily gamestop allowed me to return the used on I bought.

Last Saturday was productive as I got to get the state inspection done for my car as well as an oil change. And took advantage of Macy's one day sale to get some new cute bras for cheap. Met up with Jen for lush goodies, lunch and gift exchange.

The sucky news is last friday I had a filling fall out. Monday I made a quick appointment with my dentist to have it fixed. That was today and the filling turned into a root canal. I ended up calling off work, and am re-aquaint myself with my love/hate relationship with vicodin/ It does wonders for pain, but tends to give me an upset stomach.

And now about to pass out from the pain meds. Night all

HA! I have almost all christmas gifts taken care of(bought and wrapped.) Only thing left is to make yummy treats for the gift bags i'm putting together for my uncles, and gift bags for my nieces fairy wings. Do need to pack up most of the gifts going to Ohio and ship them up. Oh, if you're only wrapping small packages(like say 10x8x3) those 1$ rolls of wrapping paper from Target are fantastic. I used one roll to wrap 18 gifts, and could have wrapped a few more if I hadn't miscalculated and cut off too little on some of the wrap jobs prompting a do-over.

New kitten is fitting in nicely with hissing slowly going down to a minimum, and Carrie and Chester have apparently forgiven me for bringing in the interloper.

Since my mother had her gallbladder removed last friday(and boy did that come out of nowhere) I wasn't sure if my family was going to have a Thanksgiving dinner or not till the 25th when I got an email and a text from my mom saying Dad bought a turkey and it'll be ready around 5:30pm. So I baked up some pumpkin bread and headed out in the afternoon.

Mom is feeling better, but still sore and isn't able to lift anything. I got roped into decorating the Christmas tree again. Which I should just declare as the family tradition as it's been happening for the past couple of years now. Larry, Debbie and my nieces came over and the final touches were put on dinner. We then ate till we were ready to pop.

I grilled Debbie and Larry on gift ideas for Christmas. Larry apparently needs the PS3 remote and Dad needs batteries for his cordless tools. Mom also gave one of my gifts early, which was my dad's PS3(he wanted to use it as a media server, but didn't hook up the way he wanted so it got passed on to me) Need to pick up a game to play and cords to hook it up, but it is still quite shiny. After fighting off the turkey coma my parents loaded me up with leftovers and I head home. When I got home I gave my kitties some turkey as a treat

Friday, since I don't do Black Friday shopping(at least not at the mall) I went up to the Renaissance Festival with my friend Jen. To give an idea how busy and crowded it was, it took about an hour to get up to Magnolia(faire is just outside of the town) and then another hour to get through Magnolia. I did accomplish one goal I had for the drive up, found a guy selling firewood(10$ a stack) which is so much better then the stupid 4$ for 3 dinky pieces of wood the grocery stores sell.

We reach the faire and grab our tickets. Heading inside we go straight to Heaven in earths traders, because Jen wanted new shoes from them, and I wanted some cushioning soles for my pair. After that I accomplished my next big goal which was purchasing fairy wings for my nieces Christmas gifts. Happily the guy was nice enough to hold them until the end of the day so I didn't have to carry them around. After that we were pretty much free. I bought a "stocking" from the pirates, basically a huge stocking that they fill with various sharp pointy objects(again pick up at the end of the day after their auction/raffle) Then bought a ring, steel, tribal design and cz in the center. The got a perfume bottle necklace, but not from my usual place. Instead it's a small blown glass vial, clear with red swirl.

We got food and let our feet rest. Did see some new entertainers this year, both were one stilts in in costumes. One as an Ent, and the other as a dragon/monster thing. I wish I hadn't forgotten my camera as the Ent was pretty awesome looking. I then got my hair braided into a lace crown and picked up a silver/red rose circlet that accented it perfectly.

We started heading back to the pirate shop for their auction/raffle and so I could pick up my stocking. The auction part was interesting, people would bid on items as normal for an auction, sometime then the pirate would knock part of the price off, like 10$ or half off the winning bid(winning bid 60, divide by 2 so the winner pays 30$) and then pick people from the crowd who can buy the same item for the same price. And for the ladies, bouncing helps to get the captain's attention. They had a lovely pole weapon that ended up being 30$, and I bounced for it. What can I say I like my shinies? Then picked up my stocking, the fairy wings and Jen and I headed home.

Home and tired, and tomorrow braving the mall to pick up things I need and christmas supplies, and time for bed.

So saturday morning I dragged myself out of bed in order to hit Oni-con. I dressed up in lolita with my hair in curls.

Registration was right in the middle of the Artist Alley(next to a door so the line could form outside) Fortunately I got there early enough that the line was short and moved quickly. There were two dealer's rooms this year, one small and right off the Artist Alley, and a main one on the other side of the hotel. I hit the small dealer's room first and got the purchase pieces of my childhood with one dealer selling cels from He-Man, She-Ra, and The Real Ghostbusters. Pretty cheap too.

Met up with my friend Sarah and we headed off to the other dealers room. Stopping on the way to get my picture with a Green Ranger cosplayer. This was apparently my day for nostalgia. As I also saw a wonderful Yusuke cosplayer.

In the dealers toom I found a store that was selling the Myth messenger bags with a bunch of them at 30$ buy one get one free. SO I called up my friend Jen because I knew she had been looking for them, figuring I could send her some pictures get one for her and she pay me back later. Ultimately she decided to hit the con at the urging of her fiance.

I ran home to grab two of my dolls for the planned doll meet(that later I could never find, but oh well) met up with Jen and after getting lunch and meeting with Sarah and her friend on the failed doll meet hunt. We finally hit the dealer's room. First we picked out bags, me getting a Transformers messenger/backpack, and I bought a resin Statue of Cloud that I've been wanting for years, and small plush of Yusuke. Then later getting Zack action figure, some pretty letter openers/doll sword. Did some christmas shopping at a booth that had jewelry, pretty boxes and fairy figurines getting a holiday bubble fairy for Debbie. Then picked up a bento box and egg molds.

Jen and I just sorta walked around talking for a while, and I realized that next year would be my 10th anniversary of being an anime fan and going to conventions(my first was A-kon in 2000) I could kinda like to go up to A-kon next year to commemorate it, but might be hard to find people to go with. All the same I should probably start saving and planning anyway.

Later i'll get a picture of all of my loot and scan the cels to put them up.

So on Halloween will be my only day to hit Oni-con. My original plan before work pulled this mandatory overtime bullshit, was to go one day in cosplay(re-using my old Kenshin costume) and one day in lolita. Now with only one day that I get to go I'm trying to decide which outfit to wear.

My internet at home has been out since monday morning. I'm currently at my parents bumming internet from them and trying to catch up on my lj and emails. I called ATT(current provider) and apparently something's wrong with my phone lines and there's some-one scheduled to come out for repair on saturday.

RAGE. Next month there's a big conversion from a merger(moving 4 states from dead bank's systems to our systems) and instead of ASKNG people volunteer for OT they've declared everyone is working OT with an extra work day scheduled and lunches are going to be cut to 30 min. Taking away my regular scheduled day off of Oct 30th. I was planning on volunteering for OT via coming in early and working a few extra hours on my regular days but I had plans for Oni-con that weekend which will now be completely shot because of this.

I saw that I'm getting a nice 250$ customer satisfaction bonus on my next paycheck, plus that check should have a nice chunk of OT(at least 20 hours, but 8.5 of those were double OT) and it will finally have my pay increase. Decision time, should I get the new slim PS3 that's also getting a price drop to 300$ or join a split to get a Bee-A(doll) upgraded to the mature body and not have to worry about selling my old one first.