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I know I’ve posted pics before, but not in this thread as far as I know!

My Candy girl. She’s 17, flatly refuses to act her age, and is a real sweetie.
With her son, JB (he’s a year younger than her):

Being a respectable old lady:

And stealing our blankets:

And our desks.

I love my old lady.

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Greater Basilisk wrote:

But if you just find shed raptor feathers you should be allowed to keep them, shouldn’t you? 😕

The problem with that is proving you just found them. Or that you just mysteriously happened to “find” a dead raptor and acquire all it’s feathers…

I’m not American, mind you, but I can see why the rule is in place. It’s harsh, but..

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Batman Begins raised the bar. This? Blew the bar out of the water.

Admittedly, I didn’t think it lived up to all the hype – I saw one review that called it a life-changing experience, which, well, was just a leetle over the top – but I thought it was a fantastic film. Heath Ledger was absolutely the best Joker I could possibly imagine.

I could see them making a solid Batman film with, perhaps the Riddler. But I don’t think they could bring back the Joker easily, if at all. Not without making it blatantly obvious that they can’t live up to Ledger’s attempt!

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Money is completely subjective. Depends on your situation/salary/debt/responsibilities.

I grew up in a poor household. Don’t think I ever saw a hundred dollars of my own until I’d had my First Real Job Paycheck. It was just Mum and me, she worked hard and all the bills got paid, and I was well clothed and well fed, but other than that, there wasn’t much to go round. I remember (as a teenager) Mum crying her eyes out when something broke down (don’t remember if it was the car or the washing machine) and she couldn’t work out how to replace it. (Of course she managed, but the initial “oh god it’s broken”..)

My beloved and I went through a really tough stretch for a year or so, where we had to budget up to two months’ salary in advance, because things were just that tight; and if I wasn’t careful with the food shopping, we had trouble eating. Five hundred bucks was an ENORMOUS amount right about then. But, we got through it, did what we had to. And having done that, we’re fine for money, debts are all paid, money is in the bank and we’ve had a little windfall; so I can do what I did a couple weeks ago and spend $400 on clothes and shoes. And I can afford the two thousand dollar repair bill where a BMW tried to park in my passenger seat, leading to me parking under an SUV.

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I’ve never met a gym I liked. I feel incredibly awkward and self-conscious. I’m… not *quite* obese, but I left twig behind some time ago.

There’s also the fact that gym users aren’t necessary fit. Used to swim with a guy who was really ripped, and actually rather attractive. Guy had no stamina – he’d built up the muscles with weights, not hard work. Couldn’t even swim the length of a 50m pool. Me, the overweight girl with the wobbly thighs/arms/belly, I could swim circles around him. And did.

I take the stairs at work unless I’m hauling computers, I usually go wandering on my lunchbreaks – a little high-speed windowshopping, it’s probably 2 miles I walk. I do ‘real’ exercise walking and running, I eat (mostly) sensibly, and I’ve dropped a full clothes size so far this year, and apparently I’m still going, as my pants keep falling down (not off, just shuffling down my hips a couple inches) – my goal is still 20 pounds away, soit’s gonna take me awhile yet! (Hooray, run-on sentence.)

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These pictures brought to you with the assistance of HelperCat.

Helper Cat contributed some fur as a highlight to these pictures. I only noticed after I’d uploaded..

After the blue/orange muse, I had red/green eyes left. Clearly, this called for a Christmas-flavoured muse!
And of course he had to have a wee Sculpey hat. (Links to detail shots.)


The right-side-scales all have red interference – for some reason it REALLY showed up under the light I took the pictures in. It’s not so vivid in real life.
The red spots on the front (holly berries?) I have red interference paint on. And he has wee peridot stones.
I had loads of fun with the hair. It’s mostly greens and golds, but it’s antiqued with a dark brown / gold mix too. In fact, I went a wee bit nuts with antique all over this one (a fact not evident in the photos). Hair decorations are red with red interference.

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Another muse! (By the bye, someone tell me if they’d prefer me to remove the pics, as I’ve swapped eyes around from the factory… not sure if that’s OK or not! Up next is a Christmas muse, with the red-green eyes I have left. Whee! )

I got my beloved’s attention, he turned around and went “YIPE!” when he saw this! (It was blown up to 100% of my 22″ monitor…) Very funny, he wasn’t expecting a muse IN THE FACE, as it were.

Links to each side below:

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Seeing as everyone seems to be going through a rough patch recently…

Here’s what made me smile today.

My beloved and my Candycat fell over each other coming to variously hug and smooch me when I got home from work today. Cat is now sharing my desk with me and snorepurring.

Work was… work, but three people said “thank you” to me today.

The immigration lawyer thinks my beloved will have residency approved by the end of July, which is also my birthday (that would be an AWESOME AWESOME present!)

What’s going well for you?

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My other half and his sister are 8 years apart. They’ve pretty much always got on well. He’s very protective of his baby sister. (Who is now 21 years old!)

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twindragonsmum wrote:

I think we need pix of the hard boiled egg before the muse gets a touch up…

Unfortunately I’ve already paintdoodled on the insulted areas. Didn’t think to get a picture first!

What’s left (in really bad photography light) is:

It doesn’t look bad, until you realise the yellow is a perfect sunflower/buttercup/boiled-egg-yolk yellow, and the white is a flat matte paint. Boiled. Egg. Oops! 😆

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I’m painting a Muse, going for yellow belly scales.

Merrily shading the paint, creating a nice gradient, I realise:

I have just painted a boiled egg onto a Muse belly.

Oops.

I suspect a repaint is in my immediate future, as a cooked egg just looks wrong on such a birdish critter.

(Also, I found interference paints! Finally! *glee* And I have enough spare cash to justify buying them, much more importantly. Huzzah.)

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I’m really looking forward to the factory being moved! I want another PYO Dragon and a PYO Keeper Dragon soooo badly…

(And I bought two muses yesterday too!)

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I repainted my muse, then used superglue to pop her eyes back in. Just a teeny drop, then resocketed carefully!

(Same thing – gave her a bath, eye fell out and nearly headed down drain..)

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New muse!

This is one I stripped and repainted. I was very unhappy with the original (truly, it was appalling), and I’m much happier with this! I’m particularly happy with the feathers, they were (surprisingly) a lot of fun, and I don’t like feathers. I haven’t sealed yet, as I’m not sure I’m done…

My photography, however, leaves much to be desired. I can’t get things looking the same five minutes apart, let alone in different lights…

But! Gallery of the little thing starts here:

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This is Candy. She’s 16 or 17, fluffy as can be, doesn’t acknowledge her age in the slightest.
Candy likes:
Sitting on my desk, using my desk lamp as a sunbed:

Her son, JB, to whom she is still a good responsible washing mother, despite his grand old age of 15/16

And sitting in boxes.

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