character saturday: boo

Boo!

Yep... this week was Halloween, a "holiday" I love aesthetically and don't care about at all practically.

But I was deep into redoing a number of DnD Character Colouring Book entries when Hero Forge released their Halloween offering... bat familiars.

So Agent Thirteen got a bit of a do-over. Partly because I realised that he was essentially an early prototype version of my half-orc boy, Dax. Or at least Dax has some Thirteen DNA. As a result, I swapped his background to archaeologist with the thought that sometimes when you go digging around in lost cities or old ruins... maybe something there has opinions. Also, dumping the rogue multiclass.

The bat familiars are cute, but, honestly, overall posing of familiars needs an overhaul. Let me move them around more. And at a minimum, let me flip them horizontally.

But this was more for the vibes than anything else.

Anyway.

[clandestine reference to the fact that I finished the secret project... I mean, I still can't reveal it, but it's definitely finished... and I've very pleased with it/myself.]

Wednesday I had my ultrasound appointment... and, honestly, having to drink that much water and then wait for an appointment... yeah, less fun. But it was mostly painless and over pretty quick. I should hear from my doctor next week I assume, but I'm fairly certain it was all a waste of time and effort.

We're still in the No Fluffy Zone, so no DnD.

Anyway.

Today, after the supermarket, we did the Big W, Target, Kmart loop, mostly for the Looking At Things of it all.

rainbow character template revist

So, it took a little bit, and I may revisit some of them... but everybody got a face update... and I swapped a character out.

And now we have something of a sausage fest. Because there was only one female character in the previous template, but I'm not playing any female characters currently, and my half-orc (blue) had to join all my other loveable idiots.

Also, full disclosure, somebody on Reddit did the base model for the tabaxi (yellow), but I redid the colouring and decals.

What was fascinating is that some of the characters only got minor upgrades/changes... for example Leif (green), but other people became more completely themselves... like Pery (turquoise)... the charming little shit I always knew he was just bubbled up to the surface. Demyan (red) took a couple of goes... the first I leaned into "chiseled verging on gaunt" a little too much. Harland (purple) is... mostly there. I had a couple of goes at him, but he kept coming out the same way, so, you know, that's just his face now. If the smile posing worked like it used to, then a couple of them would be slightly different, but mostly, I'm okay with them all.

The breakdown for all the characters is pretty much the same as it was last time, interestingly, Harland had a somewhat fitting end to his campaign of basically telling the party that he was over it and just wanted to go home and spend a lot of the gold he got during his adventures to buy the fest hall his mother worked in and write a large number of very trashy soft porn/romance novels based on his experiences. Which he did.

But that brings us to Dax (blue)...

• Dax - half orc rogue and cleric of the Raven Queen
  As with many of the characters who have slammed against both the rock and the hard place that is the Thursday DnD Group... Dax became something slightly different than I originally intended. But better for it. Also, I do enjoy that the Thursday Group would understand a lot of my characters better if somebody just asked them the right questions. People keep asking "are we the bad guys"... and the answer is "no... you're not, because you're all bad at it... I do the things that need to be done so that you're not the bad guys". Also Dax is what happens when you hand your DM (Fluffy) a box filled with potentially very sharp things and say "do as you will". On the plus side, he hasn't killed off any family members... yet.
   

character saturday: storm son

A revisit and a refresh for this week's DnD Character Colouring Book. I did the original Izzy back in August, after taking an existing idea and making it, essentially, big. But the more I looked at it, the less it actually worked for the character it was, because it had a lot of leftovers from the first version of the character.

So, he got a do-over. And then he got a second do-over when I updated his face. And a name change to Tuvi. I'm still slightly annoyed that it's impossible to get the new Face Customiser to make a character smile without it turning into a literal nightmare, so there are more than a few characters I've updated where I don't LOVE their expression.

But I kind of dig this version of Tuvi.

Also, in my headcanon... or, basically, canon... because he's so tall, his tunic was made from a wool blanket and leather from a broken saddle. And the boots would essentially be thigh highs on anyone else.

Anyway...

Just quietly... When is seasons? How does weather? What the fuck is going on with the world? It's the end of November and the weather can't make it's mind up what it's doing. Also, basically, I'm still making soup and soup adjacent things. True, that means I don't have to think about dinner, but still.

[clandestine reference to ongoing secret project which is in the home stretch... even though I had to redo part of it because I made a small error and legitimately couldn't not fix it. Even though that meant I had to undo a bunch of work... still totally worth it. For the record, there will be a full post about this... later.]

In other news... blood test came back "yeah, basically take a different vitamin to the vitamin you're already taking... also, you're old", but nothing major. I still need to go do another test next week, which I fully expect will come back "yeah, you're old" essentially.

Anyway...

Today started off as basically winter, now it's basically summer. See earlier point about seasons and weather.

Otherwise, today was just the supermarket.

character saturday: new faces

So... something a little different for D&D Character Colouring Book this week. This is Madame Fortuna from a few weeks ago... before and after.

The Face Customiser has been... weird. And as I said elsewhere this week, I've been enjoying finding the actual people inside the generic Hero Forge faces. Some of them have been there instantly, others have taken a little work or a couple of tries. It's also really weird that even the characters I was completely happy with just look generic and cartoony now by comparison. But it's been interesting understanding some of these characters as who they would be at the table based on these new faces.

Which means it's going to be interesting in the future when it comes to designing brand new characters.

Is it perfect? No. I still can't make a character who looks like they're smiling (with teeth) properly, because the posing is still... not quite right.

I am working on an updated blog banner though.

Anyway...

[clandestine reference to ongoing project... I finished Stage 1, finished Stage 2, decided that Stage 3 could fuck off/wasn't necessary... and started Stage 4. Stage 4 was... a challenge. It was kind of the same as Stage 1, but different enough that it did my head in a little.]

No Thursday for the next three weeks. Well, this week just gone and the next two weeks.

Friday was... a lot.

It was Chiro Day... but I'd also been feeling a little off for the last week and a half, and had some other little niggles going on generally that I just went to see my doctor. Turns out the "off" is a thing that's going around presently, and it's not really very much of anything, it's just... well... "off". The other things... I feel like it's going to basically boil down to "you're almost 50, get used to it" or similar. But I also want to be sure it's not something bigger than that.

I will say that while I get the slightly more hands off approach to a lot of things that my doctor has (as in, not prescribing me things just for random things that will disappear in their own good time), sometimes it would be nice to hear something more than "yeah, that's going around"... I mean... good, but also, can we make it leave me alone specifically?

But now I have to go get a blood test and some other test next week... so there's that. It's that 50/50 of... "I want to know that nothing is wrong" combined with that "I don't want to know if something is actually wrong".

Friday was also the Most Hayfever Day Ever, so my brain attempted to leak out my nose all day, when I wasn't trying to blow it out the back of my head while sneezing constantly.

And then I had the landlord come fix the catch on the bedroom window and inspect the water heater, because it appeared to be leaking. It wasn't, the pipes leading into it were, so that's a bonus. But he'll still need to come back next week to actually fix it.

Then, even though Fluffy is away, I went up to Mr and Mrs for game night. Board games specifically. Partly I did it so that I wasn't overthinking the Doctor visit... but then I was glad I was doing it because I thought my hayfever wouldn't be so bad up there. Turns out, just as bad. It was also weird because I'm so used to making that drive with Fluffy in the passenger seat, it felt like he was still there as my copilot even though he wasn't.

Anyway...

Today was basically the supermarket, then doing a supply run for the next iteration of [clandestine project].

character saturday: miss jamjar

Sometimes a random conversation will lead to... an entire character. And then sometimes you need to wait until Hero Forge releases the Face Customiser they had in Beta testing since August.

So welcome to this week's DnD Character Colouring Book starring... the halfling version of Miss Marple.

This started out as a conversation between Fluffy and I on the drive home after the Friday Night game. I don't remember how we got there, but Agatha Christie is a regular topic of conversation at times, so it makes sense. And, of course, we made the leap between Christie and DnD, because all conversations eventually get there. Especially in the approaching midnight zone.

But the idea of DnD Miss Marple kept circling around in my brain, especially after I dropped Fluffy off and was driving home.

Thus, Miss Marigold Jamjar was born.

And, as much as I really don't want to play another bard... like... ever, she had to be a College of Lore bard...

Bards of the College of Lore know something about most things, collecting bits of knowledge from sources as diverse as scholarly tomes and peasant tales. 

They also meet at festivals or affairs of state, where they can expose corruption, unravel lies, and poke fun at self-important figures of authority.

 I mean, that's not the whole description, but it's the relevant bits. Maybe not that very last bit... but the rest of it, yes.

She also needed to be a Courtier, because while Miss Marple isn't aristocracy, she is a gentlewoman of independent means and she does know a lot of people who are, or at least considered upper-class. So that made sense.

And halfling... because... halfling.

Actually, it started off as just a halfling because I love halflings, but then I remembered that Miss Marple has a nephew who is an author. And I just happen to have a halfling character who is also an author. So, yes, Miss Jamjar is the great aunt (rather than aunt, because halflings live longer) of Harland Honeypot and the aunt of Mimosa. Hence the purple in her look also.

And the cornucopia brooch, which is a symbol of the halfling goddess Yondalla, is a gift from Harland. Basically it would be like a real world older lady wearing a little cross on a chain.

I also love the idea that the teacup and saucer are her spellcasting focus and just appears out of nowhere when she's casting. Either that or she just takes out knitting needles and knits her spell effects into the world. Actually, I kind of dig the knitting option.

But the "un-old" version of Miss Jamjar sat on my desktop, initially I was going to just post it as it was, but then Hero Forge said "hey, look, we're launching the Face Customiser for paid users, but we'll be launching it for everyone soon". And one of the options was a "make old" slider.

And that was August. And now we're here.

Is the Face Customiser terrifying? Yes. Does it make nightmares? Yes. Is it going to take some getting used to? Yes. Am I going to remake every single model? Fuck no. But once I have certain characters worked out, they'll make an appearance.

There was one that I updated earlier today where it just worked pretty much perfectly immediately. So, that friend might make his fourth appearance. What's going to be weird for me is that some of these will kind of change the way that some of these characters live in my head. Some of them will get more real, others will just get... stranger.

So that's fun.

Also, would I play Miss Jamjar in a full campaign? No. Would I play her in a one-shot? Absolutely.

Anyway.

This week's soup... it's October, and the weather is still appropriate for soup. What is weather? Why are seasons? Climate Change who? Urgh. But, yes, this week's soup was Minestrone. And it was decent.

[clandestine reference to being about 90% of the way through Stage 1 of the ongoing project... granted, as I said last week, Stage 2 is redoing the original pieces. Then I think Stage 3 is hoping that I actually have enough supplies in order to complete that bit, but I do now have a plan for that, which I didn't really this time last week. Oh, wait, no, that's Stage 4. Stage 3 is prepping Stage 1/Stage 2 for Stage 4. Confused? Good. But, yes, the project consumes much of my brain.]

So, Thursday Night DnD is officially cursed. We were supposed to be playing, but it got cancelled at the last minute. Well, at 8am that day, but still.

Which means there's no game for the next three weeks because DM Fluffy is doing a thing... then we'll all cross our fingers that we actually get any November games in before the enforced Christmas break that generally happens at the start of December. But I complained about that already.

Friday Night DnD was not cursed. Yay.

It had also been a minute since we'd played though. We did get back into it fairly quickly though. And mostly we just wandering around the town we got to at the end of the last game. Also, poor DM Mrs... this group are very "let's all split up in this location and go to three different places". Every. Single. Time.

And we'd probably get the exact same amount of stuff done if we were all together, but we'd all be in the scene. But no. We go off on our own.

Anyway.

Today wasn't much of anything.

Thankfully though, because we both already voted two weeks ago, we didn't need to go bother with that nonsense before going shopping, so that was good. Remind me to do that again later when voting needs to happen. Vote early, that's what I say.

But that's it really.

character saturday: mister whisper

Remember last week when I said I'd gone in a different direction for an Aberrant Mind sorcerer? Yeah... meet Whisper.

Whisper started out when I was watching someone play Lies of P... So I was shooting for a slightly Timothée Chalamet vibe... but Hero Forge doesn't have the right kind of hair to get the vibe completely right. But right after I made Whisper, they dropped some new hairstyles, one of which was this "side part bob", which I really love. And later I changed his skin tone to something slightly less pale, because, honestly, my default often tends to be "dark hair, pale skin".

And yes, the same pants again... look, I'm going to overuse those pants until they give me better ones or ones that look as good.

Whisper definitely is being put in the "definitely the frontrunner for the next campaign" list. Because I really do want to play another sorcerer. And I also like the idea of doing a "Gentleman Bastard" style criminal. Both in a very mild "The Lies of Locke Lamora" style way, but also in a "we're criminals, but that doesn't mean that we can dress fancy" kind of way.

Anyway.

First up, I totally spaced cadeted on the fact that it was Daylight Savings last week... so woke up, look at the bedside clock, looked at my phone clock and was temporarily confused.

Potato soup went well... and the cold version on Monday was... reasonable. Like it wasn't bad, it was just odd because I'm not used to it. Also because I put bacon in it maybe. Or I didn't take it out of the fridge in enough time to let it come a little more to room temperature. Or all of the above. I don't know.

Was good warm though.

[clandestine reference to ongoing project that has kind of passed the halfway mark... kinda... but I realised that I need to go back and redo a bunch of the original pieces that I did because they're terrible and don't match the later ones, because that's how improving works... so, yay, improvement... also much thought was given to the layout of the final thing... and also much thought given to the project that comes after this one which will be much less clandestine]

A little like last week, the rest of the this week was essentially a write off. Good for the above... but less good for... everything else.

Thursday Night DnD was already out, we knew this.

Friday Night DnD was likewise out because of people doing trips to places.

This week everything should [grip many wooden items very firmly] be all good for both nights before we are on scheduled break for three weeks.

Anyway...

Today was basically just shopping. I mean, we faffed about at my place for a while, but mostly we went shopping, came back here and that was it.

character saturday: countess

So, yes, this is the same skirt as Madame Fortuna. But I also wanted to play with a couple of different ideas. Also, do I wish they had a proper corset/stays/corset belt you could put over the top of another outfit. Yes, yes I do. Do I also still want that jacket in three variations, that one, one with no sleeve and one with two sleeves. Yes, yes I do.

This was also me playing around with the idea of an Aberrant Mind Sorcerer, which ended up going in a completely different direction. And plus, I was fucking around with the lightning body decals from a couple of weeks ago and turning them into scars.

Poor Countess didn't get a full name, but I was also working under the idea that she was either travelling somewhat incognito, or going full video game amnesia.

But, like I said, she got replaced by a better idea.

Anyway...

This week was Tuna Mornay. And, fun fact, after all of these many, many attempts of making tuna mornay, I discovered that it actually helps to warm/heat the milk first. Who knew? Actual chefs probably. It was a pretty good though.

[clandestine reference to ongoing project that I spend a lot of this week working on, that I'm doing much better with and is now up to just under 40 hours total... also more supplies were obtained today for same]

And... the end of the week was... a non-event.

Thursday DnD was cancelled because we were already one person down and then we had another cancellation. Next week is also going to be out. And then one week on... and then DM Fluffy is out for three weeks. And usually the wheels fall off the Thursday group by the end of November until at least the end of January.

So we have about four sessions left for this year. [sigh]

Friday DnD was likewise cancelled... for the same reason as last week.

I mean it wasn't going to be DnD anyway... but potential board games night didn't happen. And after starting to fall asleep watching a movie while laying on the bed, I basically gave up and went to bed at like 9:30.

Anyway...

Today was essentially supermarket, then the aforementioned trip for project supplies.

character saturday: pie-in-face

So, sometimes there are ideas that just move into your brain without being asked, unpack furniture and change the locks.

Bobo was one of those ideas. And it was like half of an idea to start with... "goblin in jester outfit". But then I started thinking about what class, and threw out Swarmkeeper ranger, went to Wild Magic Barbarian and changed the colour scheme from black and yellow to black, pink and blue.

I also needed to fuck around in Photoshop to get all the coloured shapes to be the colours I wanted them to be by making two versions with opposing colours and doing a cut and paste to get it to look the way I wanted it to.

So, Bobo got a tambourine that functions as a shield, and a full on ACME mallet.

Also I love the idea of turning the Wild Surge effects that happen when a Wild Magic Barbarian rages with stupid, clown related stuff. Instead of "an intangible spirit, which looks like a flumph or a pixie (your choice)" that explodes, it's a cartoon bomb. Instead of "a bolt of light shoots from your chest" that potentially blinds an attacker, it's a custard pie. And for when the "shadowy tendrils lash around you" instead becomes the two "ears" on his fool's cap. You know, dumb stuff like that.

I also love the idea of playing tiny barbarians. Just because it's more fun than a big burly brute.

And yes, his name essentially translates to "court jester".

Anyway...

Remember last week when I said...

Look forward to next week where I just complain that the soup was nothing special, because I'm flying without a net or much of a plan honestly.

 Yeah. That. It was fine, but it was boring.

[clandestine reference to project that look up about 18 hours of the week but that I'm keeping on the downlow right now because reasons]

I did also make an actual apple pie. Which, unsurprisingly, turned out much, much, much better than the terrible mock apple pie I made the other week.

Thursday Night DnD was much less [stream of consciousness]. We were also down our Barbarian, which means that you can 100% guarantee that we're going to engage in combat. Which is exactly what happened. We also diverted some (much?) of the potentially fallout from last week.

Friday was Chiro Day. And, much as I suggested would happen to the woman on reception last month, I totally blanked on the fact that my actual appointment was a full half hour later than usual and went into town at the usual time, only to realise I had a bunch of time to kill once I got into town. So instead I did much of the things I would normally do after the Chiro. Namely, Games World, EB Games and Dymocks.

I also discovered that Fluffy was also in town at the same time.

After Chiro, I went down to the Terry White Chemist in Rundle Place and finally got my booster. Because I have forgotten to drop in and make an appointment at the one on the Parade every single time I go visit the library for... about a month. So now it's done. And I don't have to worry about it again until the end of March.

Then I texted Fluffy to see where he was, and we met up at a very cool new second hand bookstore in the Myer Centre called Page and Turner. Where the pet store used to be I think. And there was much Looking At Books before I wandered off to Lincraft and he went off to find his dad.

Also, can I just quote a very accurate Tumblr post I saw earlier this week in relation to craft stores...

Craft stores are just like “can I interest you in some…objects? some items? would you like some things?” and every time I’m like Oooh I love objects and items and things!

Yes, this is, in fact, me... in every single craft store ever. 

There was also no Friday Night DnD because people had to do stupid things stupidly early the following morning.

Anyway...

Today was likewise by the numbers. I'm defaulting to tuna mornay for this week, because the weather is definitely taking a turn... but I'm thinking of perhaps trying out "cold soup" over Summer, at least, you know, something mostly tomato based. We'll see.

After the supermarket, we did some futzing around here, then went out to run some errands. Well, an errand. And that was it really.

character saturday: sparks and popcorn

Young Sparks had been fully designed and was sitting in the folder as a potential DnD Character Colouring Book... and then Hero Forge went and dropped some lava and lightning body decals yesterday. So he definitely got a do-over.

Also, my first Fire Genasi. And first urchin background. Plus the first time I've used the extra arm feature to put something where it otherwise wouldn't have been able to be. Specifically, the rat familiar. Which is why the tail clips through his body. But overall, it worked out pretty good.

And yes, it's another warlock in the Too Many Belts Pants and Vest With No Shirt combo. Sue me.

Anyway...

The weather this week has also been... bananas. Remember last week's "arctic winds"? Yeah, I had to give up and put the air-con on this week, because it was just too damn hot on Thursday. Also, Thursday was so completely insane with the amount of wind and therefore pollen in the air, so I was completely hayfever's bitch all day... well, at least until I left the house in the evening.

This week's soup was Lasagna Soup. And pretty damn successful too. I know I've said this a lot about many different soups, but it was potentially the best version of that I've made. Look forward to next week where I just complain that the soup was nothing special, because I'm flying without a net or much of a plan honestly.

Wednesday I ventured into the Baking Yesteryear cookbook for the third time and made something that actually looked like the pictures for a change. Which is what happens when you actually follow the recipe properly.

Granted, the final product, Potato Chip Cookies (yes, you heard me.... they have both potato chips in the cookie dough AND are rolled in crushed up chips afterwards) was... interesting. They've kind of gotten better over time, or else I've just used to being blasted with salt. I think possibly the particular brand of chips I used might be more salted than their American brethren.

Although, I do wonder what they'd be like if you used BBQ chips... maybe one day.

Thursday Night D&D was... uuuuuuurgh [head desk] [facepalm] fuck [nose bridge pinch] [wtf.gif] ARGH [flip table] [old man yells at cloud.gif] Why are you like this?

I think that sums that up nicely.

Friday Night DnD was much less chaos. We came, we saw, we kicked Hill Giant ass. I made a commune of lesbian farmers canon by accident.

T'was good.

Anyway...

Today was one of those Second Verse, Same As The First weeks.

Supermarket. Back here. Spotlight for craft project supplies.

character saturday: jack woods

Let's call this one a "companion" piece to a different rabbit hole from a little over a year ago... Lord Silver.

But rather than Blades in the Dark, this rabbit hole is the Candela Obscura system from the folks at Critical Role. And I'd been attempting some version of this character for a little while, even though the full rulebook isn't out, but then a Reddit contest spurred me on to actually get the idea to actually work. And come up with something of a backstory.

Jack Woods grew up in Seasway, a small, coastal village to the east of Newfaire. The family home wasn't far from an ancient lighthouse, and growing up under it led young Jack to develop a fear of deep water from repeated nightmares.

He left home at 16 and came to Newfaire, eventually finding work in Red Lamp as a "gentleman's companion". He has also posed for a number of the artists that call Red Lamp home. One of those relationships first brought him to the attention of Candela Obscura when he was 19. He's been part of the organisation for two years now.

As a Face/Magician, Jack can talk to just about anyone, but growing up under the light of an ancient astrolabe did allow him to learn one real trick. Changing his appearance to look like somebody else.

He carries a set of brass knuckles tucked in his jacket in case of trouble and never forgets to bring a lamp when his Circle ventures into the dark.

Granted, in the contest instance, I used a different surname... because I originally I wanted to go with Jack Wood... but that ended up feeling like too much of a double entendre for someone who is a sex worker. He could also be a different "class", but I kind of like the idea of the Face.

Did I also Photoshop the hell out of this by adding lighting and reducing the size of the lantern from something that came down to roughly the end of the cuff on the boots? Yes, yes I did. Did I also do a lot more work to it after I submitted my contest entry? Yes. Do I wish I'd waited and submitted this version? Also yes. Are his shoulders perhaps a touch too wide? Possibly. I was trying for more "human" proportions... so, who knows.

Also, have I mentioned that one of my very favourite boys names is Jack? Because it is.

Anyway...

The weather this week has been certifiably bass-ackward for this time of year. Starting out warm, ending with literal rain and wind coming up from the Antarctic (after doing a little loop and then coming down from the north) by the end of the week.

I mean, I'm not excited about the warmer weather being on the way, but also Literal Winter in September is... some bullshit.

Soup this week was... Chicken and Rice. But not the best version of that that I've made this season. Not horrific though. It could just have done with more... everything?

Thursday started off... well, not strong... but it was raining a little but I figured, I'll take my umbrella, I'll be fine. Yeah, I came home with wet shoes, wet socks... wet... everything from the waist down basically, because the rain was both heavy and at about a 45 degree angle. So... fun?

Thursday night DnD was good... but also semi frustrating for a variety of reasons. Firstly, everybody I play with can kiss my ass if they ever say that I talk too much in game. Because I was attempting to get other people involved in things so that it wasn't all me... but everyone else was just "well, you talk, you do it". Also, yes... but at the same time, you don't get to complain about it ever now.

But mostly I kid. Mostly.

It was otherwise good... did I break a guy's finger to try and get him to tell me things? Yes. Should I have broken more fingers? Also yes. What? He had information, I wanted the information, he tried to non-lethally shoot me and kidnap someone from the party. He needed more broken fingers.

Please note: I am only advocating for graph-paper broken fingers. On people who are definitely bad guys. And who attacked me first. For legal purposes.

Friday Night DnD was... our first actual DnD session in like a month. And that's usually the job of Thursday Night.

So it took a minute to align my head back to my big bird boy.

It was also one of those "spiraling gently into insanity" sessions. Probably because of the aforementioned break. But we'd had a plan... the DM had prepared the plan... we didn't stick to the plan. Which normally means that something wacky happens. In this case, it meant that nothing much really happened.

Which is fine.

We also levelled up, so that's nice.

Anyway.

Today was... let's go with wacky.

We did the supermarketry. Then we came back and I'd asked Ma to teach me how to do a thing... which, you know, is both dangerous and turnabout is, in fact, fair play. It went... about as well as I expected it to go initially, which is completely badly, and rather than being frustrated, I kind of lost my mind a tiny bit.

But I kinda got it. And then I didn't... and then I really didn't... and it was a very amusing disaster.

And then we went to Spotlight and bought things so it can be a disaster later. Or I can practice it being less of a disaster. I don't know.

I also found a very stupid, yet adorable, "bat skeleton" amongst their Halloween things. He's very dumb, but is now hanging, upside down, from one of my bookshelves. I might need to try him in some other places.

But that was it.