Tinhuviel Artanis

Thank you, anonymous soul, for the tulips!

To agirlnamedluna for the snowflake.

So yesterday late, Aunt Tudi and I ended up at the Big PO. To my surprise, I had a Mystery Package. Figuring it to be a Dominionist bomb or a fuckload of anthrax, considering my typical luck and associations with nerdlike individuals who help Mulder find the Truth that's Out There, I eager ripped into the parcel. That's the only logical route to take when you're about to die a horrible death.

But no. I didn't die from an explosion or a disease; however, I almost died from pure shock and glee. Inside was a tee shirt of the most beautiful blue hue ~ cerulean (a nice X-File colour) ~ over which was laid the biggest image of Darth Maul's head I'd ever seen. I'm talking, this tee shirt is nothing but Maul's head floating in a lovely blue dream. Along with the tee was a very sweet card from that_sakka_girl wishing her favourite Sith a happy birthday. Wow. Just wow.

Thank you Sakka! You made this jaded soul a very happy one right now. I've been kind of protective of my Maul tees since their 10 years old now and could disintegrate at any moment. It's heartening to know that I will still be able to proudly display my Sith Master for others to behold and quake in fear. And his head is damned big! It's like I'm channeling Gary Larson's Floating Head of Death! Also the blue is very appropriate, as it's the colour of Faust's mosaic eyes. I keep chanting, no such thing as coincidence no such thing as coincidence, but that was just an odd occurrence. How did you know?

Anyway, I wanted to post these pictures last night, but was unable to get my camera to talk to my computer for some godawful reason. But here they are now. Thanks again, that_sakka_girl!

( Maul in Cerulean as modeled by someone who is.....NOT a model, but Oh Well! )

On my way from my Human Thought class to my Computer class, I swung by the Big PO to see what bad news was there waiting for me. Nestled in amongst the bills was a yellow card indicating I had something waiting on me in the office that was too big to fit in my PO Box. I inched myself into the office and said to Martha "gimme my package, beyotch!" Well, I didn't put it that way, but I thought it just for shits and giggles. How was I to know that my anti-social behaviour was about to be put in overdrive, thanks to booraven22?

It was an Amazon box, which always means Christmahanukwanzayule has come again! I took my box, thanked Martha, then hobbled out to the car to rip the corrugation up with a little knife I keep in the car. It's my letter opener. I don't use it for anything else, so don't get your collective panties in a bunch. I got the box open and, what to my wondering eyes should appear, but a giant Chelsea Grin with no tiny reindeer. I picked up the accompanying note and read:

Thought you could use some additional inspiration. Your Sithly sister, booraven22

How sweet! I exclaimed in my skull, and I rifled through the pages of the graphic novel she'd sent me. It looks absolutely delicious and I can't wait to sit down in a dark corner and read it with relish. The book is called Joker and it's by Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo. I'm in luff. Luff, I tell you, luff.

So, thank you, Boo, for making an otherwise bleak day Uber-Fantastico!

Hobbling home from work last night, I had to stop by my uncle's house to pick up a package delivered to me. When I opened it, it was the black obelisk from 2001: A Space Odyssey. All the beasties surrounded it and shook small stones and clubs at it, and I was tempted to do the same until I saw that it was from falkenna, with a note saying that we wouldn't want to lose "The Vampire Relics," now would we?

Actually, it's an external hard drive, a 160 gig storage external hard drive. I'm in awe. I didn't know they came that big. I was happy to have a 2 gig that carries my important docs, which has come in really handy in my job search, let me tell you. So far, I've stored all my music, all my Shriek-related web material (which should make Himself Himself quite happy and relieved), all my 80 trillion pictures and, of course, all my writing.

Of course, I've named it The Obelisk and it will forever carry with it the dramatic theme song of "Also Spracht Zarasthustra."

Thank you, falkenna, for the wonderful b'day gift. It has already taken a huge load off my mind since the computer has been to the doctor twice already this year, and I fear for it's life. At least, now, I won't be worrying that I'll irretrievably lose everything I've painstakingly committed to this electronic wonder, thanks to this new electronic wonder, The Obelisk!

**EDIT** I just finished loading everything that means anything onto the Obelisk and I still have 139 GB of space free on this miraculous phenomenon. Wow. WOW. As Yoda might say: Blessed, I am!

My Friend Todd sent me a clay Green Man with alien Grey eyes. If it were any other person who had sent this to me, I'd be wondering how on Earth they knew I needed a Green Man to bless and protect my home but, since it was Todd to send this to me, I remain completely unsurprised. Despite the miles and years that separate us, it's comforting to know that our bond of friendship is still so strong.

With Aunt Tudi's help, we placed the Green Man on one of the front porch posts, facing the steps. This way, anyone walking up the steps to knock on our front door will be witness to and before the Green Man. ( see him! )

As of today, we have Sea Monkeyage! The first Sea Monkey I've spied, I've named Adama. I had to use a flashlight to be able to even spot this one, but I'm looking forward to many more petlings over the course of the coming week. I'd take a picture, but there's really nothing to photograph right now, nothing that could be picked up by a lens in any case. But yeah.... Sea Monkeys!

Whoever sent the B&N gift card along with the Whomp It: THANK YOU! :)