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See, Once upon a time ago I crowdsourced the inspiration for two gifts for friends who were having girl children. My then Boss Stephanie and my college friend Anoush. Not only did I have fun doing them, and posting the pictures, but they were so well-received that the little embroidered fabric books are now considered frickin' heirlooms and roughly equivilant to BABY BLANKETS by the families.

And what with us all doin' the social isolation and the stress and the what not.. Well, I may have half a dozen various projects goin' on, but a recent update from the Ringeisen clan facebook page has brought me to thinking about doin' another one or something similar enough.

When I say Ringeisen Clan, I really mean the assorted cousins. You see..my dad was the eldest of EIGHT CHILDREN. Every single one of which married and had on average two children. One of them proudly announced that he was expecting his firstborn child soon.

I figure I can use the same thing, with similar rules and an INFINITELY better dictionary of embroidery stitches. I think I'll do a denim baby quilt this time with 12 squares, and the last time I did the baby books, you went with one word for the theme of the page (nouns preferred for rendering) and picked three stitches to render the subject in.

The new tag is for the family I have left.

a) It is 8 am and currently 85 degrees outside with a 99% humidity.
b) there is but one thing and that one thing doesn't even take the time needed that'd pay for my gas out there and can wait.

Thus, I am staying inside, and rolling up Magical Girl stats from the Magical Burst RPG.

...Puella Magi Madoka Magica looks like it might be my sort of crack.


Character one

name: Setsuna

magical girl name: Pretty Star

what kind of girl: puppy

what convinced her to make a contract: I can't let my friend fight alone

wish: I wish to have my family back

magical element: Joy

magical power: resourceful purse

magical weapon: Cannon

costume: angel wings, kanji, school swimsuit

crisis: "One day I started going about my usual routine, but every-one was convinced that I had died the day before."

tsukaima(magical familiar): A friendly living doll with a jewel in it's forehead

(game in development here )

...yes i rolled this up just to draw a magical girl.

Hokay, plz muse, I know you liked doing the random even package for wanderlustlover but could you reign in the need to make minishrines for a bit.

...Yes. Lil altar cloths for the minishrines might be a good idea. Except they'd be too expensive for the size and no one would want them.

Tonight, it was a baaad trip at work.

My co-worker on the salad stationc alled in sick. Now for those of you who've worked foodservice, you know what tonight was.

Holiday weekend.

Even with help, it's a clusterfuck.

Tonight was no exception, the morning people didn't prep half of what I needed right. So.

We ran out of damn near everything.

I do mean everything, pizza crusts, chicken, mussels, bison steaks...

Out of it.

So it surprised me, myself, when with 2 hours left of this madness (it turned into 3 hours. hate late diners with a passion I does) I started singing...

"Oh I wish I were at Dragon*Con!
Where I know the scene is fair!
I wish I were at Dragon*con,
you know what I'd see there?

Ghostbusters and Stormtroopers!
Marching down the road!
Loli-goths and Crossdressers
frolicking by the load!

Oh I wish I were at Dragon*Con
Where they have conditioned-aire!
I wish I were at Dragon*con,
To see my fellows there.

In the gaming halls, and along the walls
rolling 'bones' for luck,
Cosplayers the nooks and changing rooms,
crying 'SHIT MY ZIPPER'S STUCK!!'

Oh I wish I were at Dragon*con
I know I'd be happier there.
I wish I were at dragon*con,
instead of work with dough in my hair.

I'd see the panels wide and small,
get sigs from those I adore
Watch anime, and sci-fi shows,
and tonight'd be the costume ball!

Oh I wish I were at Dragon*con
I miss the sights I'd see.
I wish I could be at Dragon*con.
That's where I'd rather be.

Instead of stuck here double-shift,
cause of a worker who lost her lunch,
the customers are having fits,
And I'm stuck with this boring bunch.

I wanna be at dragon*con,
stead of working the weekend here,
I suppose I'll just have to save my pay,
so I can go NEXT year."

various verses were altered and this is only a fragmented memory of what I sang at work tonight.





...It kept me sane enough to get home.

Edit to the first: remembered these as I was calming down.

"I WISH I WERE AT DRAGON*CON,
Y'ALL'd be safer there,
Y'all wish I were I dragon*con,
instead of near knives and going spare!
For this customer's a real winner,
as you all can see,
he's gone and ordered five more pizzas,
when we served him the last three!"

"Now you've all got your aprons,
and the waitresses are standing by.
So if you all just turn your heads,
you'll have an alibi."

"Now I'm a reasonable fuzzy,
at least to some degree,
but is this fucker doesn't shut up,
instead of two breathing holes, he'll be having -three-."