Geek.Kon was last weekend. It went incredibly well – we even got a story on CNN (I wasn’t in it, but my artwork was!). Everyone has been raving about how organized we were – and the only real complaints have been about the location, and even if we didn’t want to change that for next year we really have no choice what with humanities getting torn down and all.

So yes, everything went well. And I like to think I’m a part of how well we ran – what with the website and badges and program books and signs and schedule and t-shirts and prizes and keychains and budgeting and organizing and spending the last two months working on nothing but Geek.Kon. Horray for being unemployed!

Anyhoo, here are some photos, including one of Geek.Bot v.4, who was meant to be given out as a prize for the Sci-Fi girl (now Super Geek enforcer Yuki) naming contest, but the winner never showed. So he’s mine, cute little t-shirt and all! Yay!

We\'ve been getting a never-ending harvest of tomatoes from the garden. I\'ve been leaving them out in a bowl in the living room so I eat them. Admittedly, I would prefer a big bowl of red peanut M&Ms in the living room, but this is probably better. And they’re so perdy.

I\'ve been doing a whole much of crafty stuff lately. I made a fountain for Bailey and Pookie because cats prefer moving water (makes sense; when you\'re backpacking you\'re only suppose to fill up from streams, or else bacteria have a chance to grow, or something). So we bought a pump and I drilled a hole in one of the bajillion shells I have from Florida, and wa-la! Pumpy fountain goodness.

How does one spell “Wa-La”, anyway?

Also, a couple of weeks ago I helped my mom organize their basement, which meant I found a lot of my old junk; including bamboo sushi placemat things from Japan. So I made them into a little hangy art thinger with perdy asian fabric transfers and ribbon border.

And also I made a Geek.Bot plushy prototype. He is actually Geek.Bot plushy version 3. Version 1 is stuck halfway inside-out, and version 2 has this whole huge neck issue going on. Version 3 has problems with lacking bone structure (some said he was more a Octopus Bot), but at least he managed to make it to the finished stage!

I found out our garden is 12\" x 17\", so I made a plan. It’s is going to be so perdy!



Of course it will be just as organized as this! I made it on some demo software, so I was only able to use, like, five shrubs to represent the plants. The Spinach and Lettuce will be planted with Radishes and Carrots respectively. Than after the Spinach and Radishes have been harvested it will be time to plant the pepper, so they will go there. I have two different varieties of peas and beans, plus Edamame, so lots to grow!

Wheee!

Hubby has had three birthdays this week! ^_^ His actual birthday was on Sunday, but on Saturday we went downtown and had a nice meal and ate by the lake and he bought Supreme Commander. Then on Sunday my parents took us to the Jetroom, which is actually just a diner (thought a nice one!) next to the airport. Then on Tuesday I surprised him with another present. ^_^ I got him a new Fossil wallet with a photo inside of me with the kittens that I got developed. His old wallet was one he got from my parents when the dog ate his old one, so he needed another, and he didn\'t have a photo of his fur children. I also made him a really yummy meal of roast vegetables and an Italian sandwich with fresh basil leaves in place of lettuce and Prosciutto ham.

Anyhoo, here is the photo I gave him! Don’t the kittens look enthused? Man I have a lot of teeth! =D

Two tomato plants have sprouted! I\'m so excited! ^_^

We went to the community garden potluck tonight, and my food was the first to get all eatten up! Martha Stewart would be so proud!

This is what I made.



Looks like some sort of yummy apple desert, right? But no, it\'s cauliflower. How evil is that?! Some kid is all excited he’s getting yummy apple crisp and it turns out to be cauliflower! Haha… aww, makes me sort of sad. But it’s still really, really good.

Hubby is listening to Weird Al. Such a husband!

This blog script is making me angry. The description says \"If nothing else it serves as a good example for people starting out in programming\". Man, what an ego that guy must have. Honestly, it adds one of those stupid php slashes every time I use a quote mark or apostrophe. And not only that, but you have to go to a separate section to upload a photo. AND you have to use BBcode, but what about people like me who don\'t want to be bothered? I mean, I wouldn\'t be complaining at all if the guy didn\'t act like he was the epitome of scripting genius. But now my blog is all customized and I\'m too lazy to install a new script. Sigh. I would say I was going to sue him for mental duress if the script wasn\'t free. ^_^

Honestly, I wonder if anyone reads this? Ahh, the ramblings of some girl who works from home and rarely goes outside except to buy food. Brilliant!

Maybe people should have a license before they\'re given a blog? If you\'re not at least mildly interesting or useful to society you don\'t get a license. Or else any gibbering igit can waste important... web... space. Ah, heck, I\'m paying for my hosting. I can jabber all I want. Whahaha, I am teh win!

Since I\'ve decided for no reason that every post must have some sort of photo, here is a photo of Pookie sleeping. I think it speaks for itself.

I\'m so going overboard doing things for Geekkon. It\'s been four days since I\'ve found out about it and I\'ve already done a logo, mascots, and a website (http://www.laura-anderton.com/geekkon/).

But people keep says \"wow!\" and \"thumb\'s up!\" and it just encourages me! Sometimes it\'s hard being addicted to praise. Since this is in the \"anime\" category I can say I always related to the flashback in Kare Kano when the girl (I\'m so bad with names) thinks about how she grew up getting praised and it made her always want to be praised when she was older. Obviously I couldn\'t reference that if it was in the gardening category. That would just be disorganized... and therefore wrong. o_O

I went to a planning meeting for Madison’s first ever anime (and sci-fi) convention. It got me over-excited. Now I have a headache. =/

Because I have no photos of the meeting, here instead is a photo of me teaching my how to draw anime class at the library last month. Look at my students, all diligently drawing away! And yes, I did give them candy for being such good boys and girls.