Life updates and randomness.

Lots of things have been going on with me.
August 15th I went into the ER with a kidneystone in my right kidney. 
A week later, when it finally had passed, I went back to the ER with a much worse one in my left kidney. Went home with a friend, and had to be brought in again the next morning. A couple days of constant pain along with full body muscle spasms, and a lot of involuntary screaming later, a urologist came in and pulled out the stone (which was the size of the eraser on a pencil) and another that was behind it. Put in a stent to let another one pass, and told us I had two more growing in EACH kidney, and that I was a "stone maker"
Went back to my friends place, at some point got the stent taken out, and I'm barely back to walking almost normal, though I get worn out past the point of walking if I move around too much (a walk around a grocery store will do it), sore (i re-fractured a lot of my ribs because of the full body spasms) and I still randomly fall asleep. I only remember a few days of the past couple weeks. But I'm slowly going back to "normal"  lots more doctor visits to come!
All together (without the four new ones) I've passed 6 stones this year. I'm 23. This is beyond not cool. 

So far the stone makeup is mostly Oxalate, which as far as I can tell... is not something I eat much of...

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More of my stuff got destroyed in the big waterheater flood of '13 than previously thought. I'm still going through the remains. My costuming and vintage clothing collection is down to probably 6 garbage bags including coats and regular clothing. =/ Nearly all of my books are gone. (so glad I keep the majority of my "important" ones in my room) All of my Marvel collectors pogs (in their original packs) are gone, as are my regular pogs and nearly all my trading cards (MTG, pokemon, yu-gi-oh!, harry potter, evil ernie, digimon, sailor moon, among others...). 

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Trying to figure out how to pay my doctors bills as they come, gonna try and start up an etsy probably. (still waiting to see what my towns policies on it are. Stupid town site is always down, and they rarely reply to emails so I have to figure out when I can go in.)
Spent all my dogsitting/housesitting cash so far for bills, so i've been working on cheap commissions. 

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Other than all of that, i'm working on a goal-list of things I want to finish such as my anthology of re-told fairytales (and find a publisher), finish my corset covers, ect.

In august I got a new tattoo 

My boyfriend bought it for me <3 nbsp="" p="">

I designed it myself specifically for me, on my inner ankle. It didn't even have to be edited or re-sized. Im so happy! It includes two characters from "My Neighbor Totoro" and the goblin boomps from "Little Nemo's Adventures in Slumberland" Both of which are movies that I literally ran the tapes out on when I was little. (my parents had to replace them a couple times from the local video store)

I got it done at StudioX Tattoo in Vancouver, WA. I think they did a pretty good job =)

This one (like my other) proved that i'm a freak, seeing as it didn't hurt at all. =)

Earlier in the year I went to Sakuracon, and these were my costumes:

(Princess) Sailor Uranus 

Misty

Luna Noa

As always, I made my own costumes =) Hope I can go next year!

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Ill update more as I think of it. Bear with me =)

Starting over. A very unhappy new year so far.

It's been a while since I've updated this blog. A lot has gone on since my last post. 
I figure I should start up my blog again.

Today did not start out as a good day. Early this morning I woke up (1am) an hour after I had fallen asleep. I had the worst impending sense of dread ever. Bad enough that I immediately messaged my friend in Korea to tell him to be careful. I also got up and checked on my family (I still live with my parents) and pets. All of them were okay.
I get woken up by my mother this morning (7:23am), casually telling me "Later on today, you should help me move stuff to the other side of the garage." What? What stuff? What was going on? Turns out that the water heater had sprung a major leak sometime during the night and had soaked everything in its path. That everything was all of MY possessions that my family has so lovingly moved to that side of the garage over the last two years.
I havn't been able to go through all of it yet. There is a LOT. I know for a fact that most of my paper memories are trash now. (they were so sopping wet that they disinegrated as soon as i picked them up. unreadable). Alot of my vast book collection are going to be trash. Right now i'm going through all my shoes... hoping that it didn't warp them too much. I'm really hoping that it didn't mess up quite as much of my leather pieces as I think it did.
Gone for sure is ALL OF MY PAPER FAERIEWORLDS MEMORABILIA.
I will most likely be posting a long list of my damages later on today. =(

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My year has been crap since the beginning. New Years Eve, I started passing kidneystone dust. New Years day I began being sick (worst case of the flu i've had in years) I literally didn't eat, and slept for nearly a week. Awake only 2 or so hours a day. The next monday or so? Yeah I stopped being sick, but immediately started my period. (thats always one of those good/bad things. lol) Birthday? Had fun, except I ended up breaking up with my boyfriend. Meanwhile, my sleep schedule has been getting worse and worse. (I had been only getting a few hours of sleep a nice since around since mom came back from colorado in december) After my birthday it got way worse. (jan. 18th) up for 3 or so days at a time. end of january I mess up my leg. and re-fracture my ribs.
My reaction to pain is generally that it makes me tired. So since then, ive been slightly narcoleptic until last week... back to insomnia. Mostly caused by stress from my family.
And now, just as I feel that I might be getting back into the swing of doing my art... This happens. I just don't know anymore.

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I'll probably start posting the list of what all is beyond repair tonight.

Also, as I read books... I'll start doing reviews of them again.

I really liked this. It was refreshing to read a "comic book" that was so... earthy? Life like. I could see this actually being someones' life. I would love to have this on my bookshelf sometime.

Its the story of Jewish twin sisters, and what dramatic turns their lives take. Takes place around 1910, but goes farther into the past and future. A VERY good read, though I could see this book being slightly controversial considering it deals with abortion, birth control, burlesque, and prostitution.

I highly recommend this book!

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A very simplistic book meant for middle school aged students. I did like that the majority of it was actual responses from Holocaust survivors, describing how life had been before and how it turned. Also, some great photos to tie it in. I understand that because of the audience, it isn't too graphic (those are the ones I prefer, the ones that go into the nitty gritty of what actually happened in camps) but this was well written and put together. I especially liked the section that talked about how the concentration camps are almost prettified today (I recall one survivor seeing grass at a camp after they were open to the public, and her response that "if there had been grass, we would have eaten it" That image is the one that is going to stick with me from this book.)

Not was I was looking for, but a good read.