Awesome, Jesse!

I have hair color on my head, so my first task is trying not to die from the fumes.

Hahaha! Here's my horoscope:

You will get a lot closer to your goal today, but don't let yourself get too excited about it. If you do, you could let the prospect of success overwhelm you -- and run you off track right at the last minute! So just play it cool and take things as they come. Then, once you're standing at the top of that mountain you've climbed, you can afford to jump up and down and cheer. Having a healthy sense of confidence is wonderful, but getting too cocky about your achievements is not.

If the fumes don't get you, you win at hair color.

I put too much speculous in my oatmeal. That went from 'breakfast' to overly sweet cookie fast. And not in a good way.

Ha! That's a kinda mean horoscope but funny.

Jesse, your horoscope has earwormed me with West Side Story.

Reality check horoscopes just aren't as much fun.

I went crazy and did my eyebrows, too. The trick now is not to forget to rinse it off.

Jesse, your horoscope has earwormed me with West Side Story.

Always a good choice! The last time we were at the hospital with my father, for some reason we were singing that.

Skipping and poking head because, according to the Buffista Calendar, today is Kate P's birthday.

Happy birthday, Kate! With lots of wishes for a great day and a wonderful year!

Happy Birthday, KateP!

Onerous Task Day: just being here at work counts for me today, I do believe.

So I did jack it up enough that it's still complaining today...I am dork.

My leg went numb again, and this time the Ambien had kicked in which made my reflexes worse. I stood up, angled towards the left of the chair I had been sitting on, and turned quickly to the right, and the right foot didn't actually move. At which point I screamed, dropped what I was carrying, and pitched forward, hands out to brace my fall against the nearby chair.

I am assuming I tore some of the scar tissue from before, as opposed to making a whole new injury, and it's not something that requires medical attention, just a (hopefully short-lived) regression--I had been hoping to relegate the cane to emergencies only starting tomorrow, but I can't bear my full weight on it without pain right now, so...maybe Monday?

No portrait photographers? I am loving the 1.8 50mm lens I got last week or so, and am toying with getting a fixed focal length wide angle for the trip home...these are so much more expensive...but I want to save up for a portrait-specific lens for my birthday present or something, and am interested in your experiences.

I set myself a fanart challenge last week, because I felt stalled, and I felt like my tools outstripped my technique. So I'm drawing and posting a kiss a day, and it's...it's remarkably how few angles I can find in source pictures that I can actually draw. Oh, look, it's the 1/4 Cas/3/4 Dean shot again! Or should I make that 1/4 Cas?

But the most interesting part of it is that I can see how people tag these, and I know enough of some rebloggers' likes and dislikes to know how they're probably categorising some of the pics. And it seems that if character A is leaning in/holding B, A is a Dom/top. I am trying to be careful to switch up "who plays the girl" when my reference pictures is het, but fact is, one character is shorter than the other, which makes it often easier to swap them into the girl position. But that's also how a noticeable chunk of fandom dreams of him--girly, submissive, with hips, wearing women's clothes (I'm not conflating those things, I'm reporting conflation). I feel guilty playing into that, but I keep reminding myself--I draw everything I draw. They can (and will, of course) pick and choose what appeals to them.

ita, I hope the ankle re-heals quickly. (I got nothing on the portraiture.)