Hello!

This weekend I went to visit my family to celebrate my birthday since it is tomorrow. I had a really fun weekend, on Saturday we had a party and sooo many people showed up! 14 in total. Then my in-laws took me out to eat with my sister-in-law, her fiance, and brother-in-law. My mother and I worked on my Mira cosplay for the convention. We're almost finished, I finished the scarf I was making for my husband, and patched up a quilt I've used almost every night since I was 14.

Everything was wonderful until we returned home. Apparently during this weekend one of the cabinets in the kitchen fell off the wall. The majority of my glasses and several of the plates my mother bought me broke, there was glass everywhere, and kitty-Fry was running around in it. When we looked at the cabinet the people who installed it did a terrible job, they didn't brace it with anything! They hung the whole thing through the flimsy cardboard-like back instead of any actual wood or structure! We called the landlord and we have to come up with an amount of damage. Ug, so not what I needed...All but one of my favorite set of glasses broke. But my Sailor Moon mug is fine, lol.

Joey found the Halloween decorations too! I decorated my mother's house already. I know it is a bit early but oh well. :)

For my birthday I got The Big Bang Theory seasons 1 and 2! My brother, husband and I spent most of Saturday night (until 2 am) watching season 1. I also got my very first birthday balloon!

-Ally B.

Well, not really, but it is talk like a pirate day. The artwork is mine but the rest is Ravyn's doing.

Hello everyone.

I was watching the Colbert Report today (rerun of last night's show) and I saw about the textbook special. One person on the program was angry that terrorists were not identified as Muslim. Why should they be equated? Not all Muslims are terrorists and not all terrorists are Muslim. There are plenty of instances of terrorist activities that had nothing to do with the Muslims; look at East Timur(sp, sorry) and Indonesia for one.

As we're on the topic of education I still don't know why people were so angry about President Obama's speech to the kids. If anyone has a major impact on what a child thinks and does it is going to be their parents. Just because he spoke with them does not mean he said "I talked to you, you owe me, now be a democrat". He was encouraging them to try hard...

One last thought, LOUD does not equal correct.

Well, that's all. :-) Thanks for listing.

-Ally B.

Hello everyone!

If you are going to be in Arizona during Halloween why not visit Saboten Con? Tiffanie, Ravyn and I will be at a table so if you'd like come by and chat with us. We'll have goodies and fun things to do too!

Holy crap I could just kick my cat (I won't mind you, I love him to pieces). When I came home this 4th weekend I had left my markers safely on the couch in their case and I found that he had gotten to 5 of them. That's roughly $30 worth of art supplies ruined! And unfortunately I needed them for the finishing touches on a project I'm working on for Ravyn.

So today we spent a really long time trying to find a Hobby Lobby that sells replacements and weren't all sold out. The one we found had to hide them behind the counter at the frame department because people kept stealing them. Geez, people. I know they're expensive but come on. That's not going to encourage the Hobby Lobby to keep them as a regular item.But anyway Ravyn's project is finished, I'm going to take pictures and Joey's sending them out either Monday or Tuesday morning.

Well, toodaloo peeps!

-Ally B.

Today is a special day: It is both the birthday of America and Hunter! So Happy Birthday!