That's what I like about Masq, it only requires a mask and the rest can look at fancy or casual :) I'm looking forward to the new wears and of course the food. I recently got into the food achievement last year and I have many more foods to go thru

The wears are always gorgeous! I haven't even started feeding my pets ^^' I have one or two well read ones, but food... That's something for when I've completed my beanbag and plushie collections I think 😂

I'm working on those two collections also :P All of them are taking awhile, but that's okay. They'll get done eventually :)

I'll probably edit everything I've written sofar up to a point where the original sentences are almost completely gone.

love your HA :)

I think I've actually only participated in one or two masquerades. Is any item with mask in the title considered a mask?

happy mother's day to everyone (pets count)! ❤ - have yu found that the feel you get when you're doing a reading is different if it's online or in person? i've never done either so i'm curious. :D

- the reclining bike is supposed to take up no more room than a regular exercise bike. it's also easy to get into which is a plus for me. as for character sheets, i used to use one that one of my uni professors gave me. it is on a thumbdrive my hubby keeps telling me he has but has yet to produce. i think he lost it and just doesn't want to tell me. lol as soon as i can find it i'll send you a copy. i haven't looked for a replacement (if it really is lost) yet because i haven't written anything worth using a character sheet for. :D - one of my uni professors told me that iteration was the most important thing a writer must do because it's through iteration that we find all the pieces of the story we need to tell, not just the one we want to tell. don't be afraid to rewrite. also, constructive critique is a good thing. it'll help you spot problem areas in your writing as well as help you work through sticky plot points. i've gotten a lot of good ideas and advice through constructive criticism. :D - yes, i'm listening to my body. it's angry at all the lab work that was done on thursday. it pretty much took a couch potato day yesterday. lol today i'm playing catch-up. there never seems to be enough hours in the day. i bet it felt good to have a clean house. do you have one of those mechanical cat litter cleaners? i always wondered if the cats would react to it the way they do to vacuums. :D - waves hi! i hope you're having a relaxing weekend. :D

Good advice! I know I'm far too critical of myself to be honest, I write and rewrite a lot lol... I'm definitely going to have some folks look at my pet pages when they're finished, I've just started on Sapphire's page.. Elani is on break for a while until I can work out how to start her story 😂

[edit]Another pet brag ... Sapphire's story is about halfway done <3 She's based on my IRL cat (mannerisms, look etc) but I'm tying the story in with both Elani and Arlo, my other two work in progress pets~ I got warm fuzzy feels typing up what I have so far 😂

Reading in person puts a little more pressure on being entertaining. You can't pause without things becoming more awkward.

And interacting with a person face to face is always going to feel different.

So I have a cyst(?) under my skin that will have to be removed. But the earliest that can be done is June 3rd >.<

And, yep, it's painful xD

Happy mother's Day everyone! My son made me a breakfast this morning ❤️ We've been working on renovating our hallway for the past two weekends. We're replacing the outsides of the fuse box and some other panel that we want to turn into a door, because we have to open it every time to reset the router. After that we need to paint all the new structures and we're making a new coat rack after that.

do you have a writing degree? That's so interesting.

congrats! I'll need to make a pet based on my real dog too. She's getting really old...

i just love lazy afternoons :)

i can understand your bosy was fed up with that and being a couch potato is always nice. No not handy dandy kitty litter box, just a normal one and have to do it buy hand. Isometimes use the vacuum cleaner to get rid of all the kitty litter when they made a big mess. Mooz does not mind the vacuum cleaner but Meez my Cowardly Lion is under the bed or away from it.

Happy mothersday to all the moms and pet moms

Oh i saw someting about the Masq event. Was it somewhere this month? Not ready for it (yet).... need some nice masks and outfits first.

Ooh ouch! I've had a few cysts in the last few years and they're awful 😭 Have they given you antibiotics or anything to fight the infection? Last year I had a cyst on my upper thigh and I was so sick with it I was in hospital - the infection was just ... Really really bad! Doesn't help I'm insulin dependent diabetic too of course, but even so! The fact they're just leaving you until June seems crazy to me!! Hope you feel better soon <3

Thank you <3 Saph is 5 years old so still relatively young, but we lost her older brother (a few weeks after his 10th birthday) the year before last ... It's still too painful for me to want to set up a page for him (he went through a lot toward the end, bless him) but doing one for Sapphire has been fun! <3 It also means I get to show off my pretty cat lmao, I have some crazy pretty photos of her 😂 but maybe I'm just biased...

The mentioned the masquerade event in this news post :) No set date yet, but probably soon! I haven't got an outfit yet either, but I did buy a lot of masks I liked the look of... 😂

It should be starting this morning, probably closer to the end from what it says on the news post that Lumos posted. There is time to get some HAs ready for it :)

Thank you! I'm thinking of changing, but I'm not sure how I want my HA to look yet.

It has been a good weekend. My parents are here for about a week and yesterday we went to the Asian American Pacific Islander Festival. It was fun and the food was delicious. There were dances from different cultures and all of them were amazing.

The dermatologist didn't say it looked infected so I didn't get any medications for it.

As for why the long wait...I'm on Medicaid so I'm shocked I could call and then get seen the next day. There tends to be a lot of waiting with Medicaid.

I'm on SSI so I have shit insurance.

I love lazy afternoons as well :) The weekend was not so lazy with all the renovation stuff we did. It turned out to be pretty hard to fit in the door panels that cover our fuse box, so we had to take the whole thing apart a couple of times to make small changes.

I understand. I think it will be very painful when my dog passes. We've had her since she was a puppy and she has been the stable factor in our lives for the past decades. We've moved to a different city three times with her. I'm thinking of getting a tattoo dedicated to her, but I don't know what it should look like yet.

what kind of food did you have at the festival? I love trying out all sorts of cuisines.

see i knew i read it somewhere. It says: during the week of may 23...As we get closer, we'll have a more solid date for y'all I hate waithing... but time enough to get an outfit done.

oh boy... hope the renavation stuff went well accept hiccups with the panels.

I went to the pet store for the pics of the boys. They turned out great! See photo! Meez is red and Mooz is black & white.

Ahh, I've not got those issues simply because I'm in the UK with NHS/free medications etc ^^' So I've never even had insurance of any type!

I did touch on Buddy (the cat we lost) in the RL section of Sapphire's profile page (4th tab I believe!), but it's still very painful... We only had him for about 4 years I think it was? But he was mine and my partner's first pet (outside of say, family dogs etc), I don't think I'll ever stop hurting over losing him! A tattoo of your dog sounds lovely <3 I've considered getting a tattoo of Sapphire's paw print, could something like that work for you? I've seen so many pet dedication tattoos it's crazy! There's a local artist I know of that basically turns a pet portrait into a chibi design, the results are always amazing 😭 I suppose it would all depend on how big you'd want it, and placement etc though!

Ohh they're beautiful! <3

There was a Hawaiian food bus, an international food truck with american, greek, and italian. There was another food truck that served southern type food, and a sweet/bakery type truck. Also ice cream on wheels food truck and the popsicles were really good. My son ate most

Those kitties are so cute!! :)

Meez and Mooz are adorable :)

Dang O.O'

Thanks! I am glad the pics turned out ok.

your boys are beautiful! I'm glad you're satisfied with the pictures.

I've been thinking of doing something with her corgi ears for a tattoo, but I'm not sure yet. ZI guess I just need to find an artist I really like. For the placement I'm thinking my lower leg at "corgi height" that way she'll always be walking with me.

I see you have a new HA that is just as beautiful! I got my HA ready for masquerade, I just couldn't wait...

- our alien overlord is among us! oh hail to you great alien overlord! uh... i can't think of anything else to say right now... just make our alien overlord feel welcome, won't you, ravenhart? :Pin all seriousness, i'm sorry you have to deal with this again. medicaid sucks and your issues make me feel guilty that i have such incredible insurance. i wish you felt better . did the doc at least give you pain meds to hold you over until the removal?:)

- lol, you'll find that i'm full of good advice, i just don't follow any of it. i haven't written anything since i got sick 7 years ago. i first thought it was due to my illness. then i thought it was due to the dysphagia caused by the illness, then i thought it was just writer's block. now, i think my brain is broken. i can write forum posts like this but nothing else. sigh perhaps i'm just meant to hand out good advice. ;) :P i'm glad your stories are forming up. :D

- yes, i have a bachelor's of fine art in creative writing for entertainment. i learned how to write for any and everything that could be considered entertainment: books, video games, television, movies, and a bunch of other things like advertising(eventhough it's not strictly entertainment it does overlap). hubby still can't find the thumbdrive so i'm going to see if i uploaded it to my mediafire account. this may take me a bit as i haven't been to mediafire with the screen reader yet so i don't know how it will work. interestingly, i got my bfa 9 months before i got ill. i never had a chance to use anything i learned outside of a uni assignment. lovely waste of money, rofl 😂

- oh, i wish i could see the boys! i bet they are adorable! i bet their picture looks lovely next to the one of your old kitties. :D yeah, my body was trying to tell me to take it easy. i got sick sunday night. nothing serious, just nausea, extreme tiredness, headache, etc. it's still here today but it's starting to wane. :) i hope your workweek hasn't been too bad. with masq has make sure the mask you put on yur ha works with the masq dance function. some of them don't. check subetalodge to find which do. :D

- oh, i'm jealous! i would have loved to try some of the food available. i love asian cuisine. did the hawaiian truck have spam? they work miracles with a can of spam. :D