The Zoo over Ambuscade Street

The fabric in question (except it's not really that shiny):



And the forepanel (again, actually a little darker):



*staggers off to die of headache*

But the Neon is all fixed and working now, yay! Which means I get to go to Michaels and buy beads for said forepanel, with which I will entertain myself with this weekend after NCRF.

What is love? Freshwater pearls at 50% off is love. Yay! I also have some gorgeous bottle-green round jade beads, some yellow-green butter jade "fleck" beads (I may end up using these for a necklace instead - they were such a neat color I couldn't resist!), some tiger's eye beads, and some amber glass teardrop beads. Also copper leaf charms. I'm all set to bead my forepanel and make it Fabulous.

I also have a cross-stitch that I haven't touched since I destroyed my wrists getting the one done for Bridezilla's wedding, and my blackwork stuff, a couple of books, and my iPod. I will have no problem entertaining myself this weekend. Plus, I'll be with Mel and Devon, which is plenty entertaining.

It took *all day* getting Erik's car picked up from the transmission shop and road-ready. It's still riding a little rough, probably because the gas is more than six months old. The plates are renewed, it's inspected (fixing a few things they found is what took so long), it has some fresh gas, and now Erik's off to work, and we have two working cars again. After the towing + engine work + transmission work + inspection work, it still cost us under $2K, so we're pretty happy.

I get to pla~aa~ay on Saturday, yay! I suspect my productivity at work will be at an all-time low tomorrow...but I get to leave at 11:30AM, so it should be OK. ^_^

Insomnia sucks. Sleeping disorders suck in general, but mine tends to take the form of sleeping too much at completely inoportune moments without getting any actual rest.

Well...at least I'm still not getting any actual rest. Or something. I'm supposed to be awake and going to work in three hours, although I could fudge it to four. Which is still grossly inadequate, since I didn't sleep much last night, either.

Meh. And each time I start feeling like I might actually be able to fall asleep, I get a stunning burst of creativity that wakes me up again. One of which involved pearls, and jade (I'm so in love with the stuff I bought today), and flinging more money at rhiannontherose. Because two purchased pieces and two future pieces aren't enough. So, if I have time tomorrow, it's back to Michaels for more pearls while they're still on sale.

Want to sleep now...