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First of all: Anthrocon was a real blast. Like after almost every convention, I wanted to write a full convention report, but in the end I ended up with writing absolutely nothing. Well, it was the best AC yet. Some little changes, some bigger ones, such as moving registration into the hallways of the convention center helped improving things. The idea with the fursuit parade was wonderful and touching. Snirf had fun joining Greifer for a beer at the Tonic, and I got to meet and talk to many people such as the legendary Magic Tom, Fernando, as well as interesting people living in Pittsburgh.

No media exposure for Snirf, boohoo! :)

After AC, I dived right back into work, finishing the video for Confuzzled while beginning work on the Anthrocon video. The Confuzzled video has been released as you may have noticed, and the Anthrocon video is progressing really fast. Thursday is complete, Friday is 50% finished. Expect a few visual surprises in that video. :)

Thursday, I'll arrive in Orlando for Megaplex. I'm pretty bouncy about this one, for some strange reason it's a special con for me. :)

All this while preparations for EF have begun.

Well, I'll go out for Greek dinner now with the rest of the EF crew. More info later.... or check Twitter for some real time updates on the progress of the EF Preps. I'm planning to tweet more inside informations as things progress, and I may do an LJ transfer of photos and extended explanations if I can find the time.

That's it for now. :)

I love this icon.

I guess things have gone awry between me and Rob now. It started yesterday when I asked him if he plans to stay with that girl Emma. And he apparently plans to. And apparently his visit with me and all that affectionate crap meant absolutely nothing to him. I was just a good time. A nice vacation. He said it was just "nice". If he were a gentleman he would have pushed me away and not encouraged that at all.
I was completely fooled. We got along so well. I thought there had to be something there because of that. And he says he thinks he wants some chick who's completely opposite of him or some crap. Said maybe he "doesnt want happiness" or whatever the fuck that means. Apparently having lots in common and getting along splendidly wouldn't make a good relationship in his screwed up mind. Either he really is massively inexperienced or he's off his bloody rocker and/or a fucking bastard. But what the hell ever.
I've said it a few times before... but this time I guess I feel differently. This is the last straw. The truely last tiny bit of straw left that there was left. It was a crumb really. A straw crumb that was left. I was hanging onto a fucking crumb. Crumbs fallen through my fingers and it's gone. I've had enough. I feel very different now. I've removed him from all my friends lists. I guess if I want to keep playing furcadia I will have to switch names there too. I will have to ditch all the people he hangs out with. That's a shame 'cause I liked those people. But whatever. You know actually fuck Furcadia. It's been the bane of my life from day one. I don't want to chance meeting another asshole from that stupid game. So I quit Furcadia. I shall delete it after I write this. I actually dont feel that sick to my stomach this time. Usually when I ignore him i feel just terrible like I'm going to die or something. This time i don't feel anything really. I feel like the only choice there was left is to cut him out of my life... so I guess that's what I'm doing.
Anyway I asked him what he wanted. I asked him would he rather i just stay there waiting forever or go. And he said he'd rather I go. And then he was all claiming he didnt want me to go. That he wanted to stay friends. He doesnt know what the fuck he wants. Anyway. I go. And I don't care if you happen to read this Rob. In fact I hope you see it and know just how much hurt and pain you've put me through. Just how much more screwed up I am now thanks to you. I've wasted so many years on you, for you. I loved you. And its all your fault because you encouraged it and allowed it.
It coulda been far different. In fact probably you could change it at any moment, but you wont. You'll probably just crawl off with your tail between your goddamn legs. When you decide to grow the fuck up and be a man and realize what you've just thrown away, ring me up or something. You know how to contact me. I said I'd always love you and I meant it but I'm just not gonna wait for you anymore.

~Kat

I am heading out shortly to go on a small hike with my dad. Nothing too major since he hurt his leg recently so is taking it easy. It's been hot the past few days- which I despise! Blech!- BUT I am hoping that the heat is attracting out some creatures in the mountains.
We are going on a trail that specifically is known to have rattlesnakes. I, unfortunately, never got to see a rattler in person in the wild. My dad has in that area though. I would LOOOOVE to get some pictures of one!
Don't worry, I am careful! I know not to get close, or do anything that may seem threatening, to a potentially dangerous animal. I will rely on my camera's zoom and hope they still come out OK (MOST of my creature photos are taken, literally, between 1 and 6 inches from my subject. Though, I also never encounter anything that can harm me either so I am never in danger).

EVEN BETTER NEWS HOWEVER isssss..... in the near future my dad is taking me hiking to an area he recently saw- A RED FOX!!!!! So I will be determined to see one! I never saw a wild fox before... just zoos. And it's one of my dreams to finally see a fox in the wild! Always been my favorite animal, and always will!

But anyway, I will post pictures later if I get any. Don't get your hopes up though :-/
I hope I at least see some cool bugs!

With two days delay due to a file that got corrupted during upload (Thanks codydawg, woelfisch, doco for letting me know), here it is, finally!



I hope y'all like it. :)


And while I'm typing this, I'm almost at 33% with the Anthrocon footage. W00t! Next stop: Orlando. :)

Just got back from the dentist. Great check up, but my baby molar doesn't have a root anymore. Dentist is pushing for an implant or bridge. I didn't make any decision but I was always favoring braces.

I put it off originally because working in a call center, I needed to talk clearly. Now that I'm unemployed, that's no longer an issue but I'm pretty sure my dental plan doesn't cover braces in full. So now it's out-of-pocket costs that's the hesitating factor.

Oh, and the stupid cat moment.

Last night Mayday just disappeared. Mom said she was hiding, but I didn't find her in any of her usual spots. What got me worried was that yesterday I went to the grocery store. I walked out the front door, heard thunder and thought, "It might rain before I get back home. Better get my umbrella." So I turn right around and go back into the house, without closing the front door. Hit Burger King (so I wouldn't buy a ton of food), got a few things and went home.

Mayday never showed up once. At first, I took Mom's comment that Mayday was hiding at face value and went about my business. When I didn't see her in any of her usual hangouts, I remembered not closing the front door when I went back in to get my umbrella. What if she ran out the front door? I started going back and forth from checking all her usual hangouts to worriedly checking the backyard. Just the sort of thing I need on a night that I need to get some sleep to catch the morning bus. I kept having bad thoughts about finding her dead body on my way to the bus stop.

Around 2:00 in the morning, I finally gave up and took a bath. Guess what I find upon opening the bathroom door. Mayday in her usual spot in the hallway!

Stupid cat.

Now all I have to do is get a job with dental benefits that'll kick in in time for my January dental check-up.

An Fear agus a chompánaigh...

A memorial design for a good friend... in remembrance of his two girls... his two companions

Hope you like it ren_tigger

exhausted, tired, happy, and sad. More info once I get some proper rest.

PS: 14 fursuiters from 74 attendees!!!! WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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Mayday was due for her regular shots, so yesterday during his weekly visit Pop took Mayday and left Samantha up here.

Pop just came back a few minutes ago. Mayday doesn't look too traumatized.

I've got a dental appointment tomorrow. Hence all my grouching about my sleep schedule being off. Being a bus-rider, I can't afford to wake up a little late. I either make the bus and show up early, or I miss the bus and show up late, and if I miss the appointment I'll be charged a last minute appointment cancellation fee.

Rasco is one of the few actual characters I have that I draw regularly, rather than just once and he is never seen again...
I think part of the reason is that it is just so friggin fun to draw Fennec Foxes with their super adorable exaggerated features.

This is also a brand new medium for me. It's done in Gouache Paints. I usually use either mechanical pencil, colored pencils, or photoshop for art. Paint is a bit tedius for me since I am inpatient, but the Gouache is definitely the nicest paint I ever worked with. Smooth like watercolors, but with the bold coloration of acrylics. A very nice in-between paint.

But, anyway, here is a Gouache picture of 'Rasco'. I do not have a scanner so this is a digital photo taken of the picture, so there is a lot of shadowing, some loss of detail, and smudginess where I cut stuff out of the background haha...

These are always oddly fun to do even when so many of the questions are dumb....

( CLICK HERE for a bunch of questions and answers. Whee! )

(*sinister laugh*) Now, if you really want to have fun, list all the things wrong with this.

Managed to cut self on catfood tin. Those lids are sharp.

Best part was it was a painless cut on the top of my pinkie finger, so I only noticed when I saw the stains of blood running all over my fingers and palm. "Wait, how in the..." and then tracing my steps back to the kitchen where I found the first few droplets near where I'd opened the tins.

Lucy and Daimien probably have a taste for human blood now if I bled into the food o:

Well, here I am sitting at my cousin's place and his massive internet pipe that lets me suck down the information of the internets that much better, and to look after his pup and the two cats again for a little over a week. Which means animals, movies and games in the home theater system, and the fact I'll have to torrent some more to abuse the internet connection, maybe download a HUEG GAME or something ;p

Oh god, who needs 1680x1050 resolution anyway.

I live... AGAIN!

With a dog and two black cats~

Like this song :*(

To see you when I wake up
Is a gift I didn't think could be real.
To know that you feel the same as I do
Is a three-fold, Utopian dream.

You do something to me that I can't explain.
So would I be out of line if I said "I miss you"?

I see your picture.
I smell your skin on
The empty pillow next to mine.
You have only been gone ten days,
But already I'm wasting away.
I know I'll see you again
Whether far or soon.
But I need you to know that I care,
And I miss you.

For those who want to see all my animals, I am posting them all here! Hope you enjoy looking at them all. Click the link to go see them!

( CLICK HERE for lots of critter pics )

Name: Dacks Adiron
Age: 29
Gender: Male
Species: Snow Leopard
Orientation: Bi-ish
Location: Colorado

I'm here looking for a second mate, or my current mate and I are looking for a pet.
I am very picky on who I'm looking for with both mate and pet.

So drop me a line if you are interested in either and we will go from there.

Anthrocon still rocks my socks off. I love this con. I had great sales, both in the art show and at my table, I went to some awesome panels, but most of all I met some fantastic people and, for the first time, ended up making some friends as well. Thanks so much to everyone who was there, the irreplacable staff, and anyone who interacted with me for even a moment. You all made this, my third con, just plain wonderful.

There is a long con report under the cut. I feel like a douche because I wrote it all out and then accidentally pressed back and lost it all. I hope its as good if not better than the original x.x Sorry this is all quite late as well, I pretty much had to go to work right after I got back so I haven't had the time to sit down and type it out.

( My Anthrocon 09 )

If anyone missed me at my table during the weekend, or wasn't able to make it to the con, I still have prints of all of my art ($10) and several of the Happy Fox stickers ($3) left! Just send me an e-mail or a PM if you're interested =3

Also if anyone has photos or videos of me I'd love to have them! Thanks so much in advance.