Pizza for breakfast.

Went to C. & M.'s last night for bonfire, crazy midori drinks and silliness. Never actually made it home. We all talked with T. and basically laughed until I crashed somewhere around 3 or 4 and we're still at C. & M.'s, so I busted out the laptop. We're most likely here for the day since D. has game with the usual crew this evening.

Something about sitting in the dark, with the chill of a winter night at your back is one of the most comforting feelings in recent memory. I miss just being able to sit and laugh like that. Our group has become slowly more and more wired until every trip to the coffee shop lately has become a group of people, sitting around a table, laptops out, scarcely talking. We were always so disturbingly close before, and spent entirely too much time laughing about, well, everything. I'm just not at all sure when the change came, but I blame Daniel and his serious WoW addiction. He's basically never more than three feet from his laptop. It's driving me a bit nuts, to be honest.

In total rabid squeeing fangirl news, Wil Wheaton is coming to the Phoenix comicon at the end of the month. I've been bouncing off the walls since I saw it on his blog. Wil Wheaton is basically my major retarded fangirl crush. He has been since ST:TNG, and his writing just drives the point home for me. He's articulate, funny, and as much of a dork as I am. This should be a lot of fun. C. was planning on going anyway, so I'll have a ride. Being this excited about a convention in Phoenix may be the dorkiest thing I've ever done, but I can live with that.

Working today on the Stargazer lily. It's one of my favorite paintings, and not just because it's the one I'm working on right now. I'm very pleased with how it's going. It started off strong and once I get the shading done, it's going to be amazing. I feel like I'm learning more every day. Having time to actually work on this stuff has made me a lot stronger as an artist, which is exactly what I wanted when I decided to step out on this limb. It's a struggle, but I'm confident now that it will be worth it in the end.

XOXO

Crys