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Actually, I'm getting better now. But yesterday I was pretty sick, and it sucked! I just sat here and ate a lot and drank a lot of fluids and took medicine. My body's already fought most of it off by today which is neat.

Poor Jon was sick longer than me. But he didn't even get any medicine. :( I should have bought it for him before but I was still all agoraphobic. I'm making him take the rest of my medicine now though.

Also: You people who are using my posts about sexual addiction to advertise an escort service are really messed up, k? I mean, that's like going to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting with a bunch of booze! "Hey guys, drink this! Your addiction needs quenching!!" :D :D I'm finding my CAPTCHA isn't deterring these, I had 3 distinct cases of this occurring. I will continue to erase them personally though, and if need be take greater measures!

Terminator 2 was one of my favorite movies since I was a kid. Same with Jon, really.

We recently got a hold of a DVD of the first series of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, which follows T2 and actually (conveniently and thankfully) skips over the entirety of T3 with time travel! Ha!

Anyway, we really, really like the series so far. It's more in line with Terminator 1 and 2 than T3 ever was and really breathes new life into the franchise, IMO.

I've read that people think the actress playing Sarah Connor isn't built enough. :P Well, she isn't, but I still think in terms of attitude the woman's got it right. Even more awesome is Cameron, the new Terminator protecting John Connor. I never saw Firefly/Serenity but Cameron's actress is the one playing River Tam. I was amazed that she's actually 27, she TOTALLY does not look it. *boggles!!*

Anyway I just had to add that tidbit before bed, because I'd meant to write about it earlier. Here's hoping we can see the second season soon. :P

So I'm more or less finished with Rosalia's sheet [Edit: Fixed this link] -- the non-Abyssal version, anyway. It took SO LONG, though the majority of it was writing her Legends and her harp artifact. I actually love the harp. :D But mechanically, it was hard to figure out rules for. This is one of those moments is where freeform would be better. =_=

Other parts of the sheet I really like: Rosalia's servants, and the bio I wrote for her. :O The Hearthstone is nice -- but I like my idea for her second Hearthstone (which unlike the Stone of Springtime will be from an Underworld Manse) even better.

I pulled an all-nighter to finish all I wrote. Nekira said she loved the sheet, though, and didn't have any immediate issues with it. So, I'm happy.

Well, Wednesday was pretty fun. Charles only got to stay a few hours, though, 'cause he had work the next day, and Jon and I were both unusually tired from barely sleeping the night before.

Before he arrived (mostly the day before) we put up our silly decor. We had some Halloween mini pumpkin lights we put around the cutout window thing in the wall at the entrance hall. We had this glow in the dark skeleton with blinky eyes on the wall, and a skull and crossbones pirate-y sign that said "Beware ye who enter here" on the bathroom door that I think we're going to keep there. (Heh!) We put these fake shackles made of painted styrofoam on the TV, too. And had a pumpkin shaped candy holder that we put a bunch of random candy in.

I'd overslept so I wasn't able to bake my cookies before Charles got there. I just baked during, while Jon and Charles talked and played games and stuff. Here's the recipe I used (it's very good, IMO):

It looks like Jon and I are going to see Order of the Phoenix tonight again. YAY! :D So we'll be gone for a few hours, but we'll be back late tonight!

On the DNS issues, I've been working with HostForWeb to fix them. At this point the techs have squashed most of the DNS report problems, except two failures. The Open DNS servers thing is something I want to deal with after I can confirm that DNS is actually working RIGHT, while the Single Point of Failure is a limitation of the way my server is set up, so I can't really do anything about that.

Neither of those things ought to keep people from being able to access my site through the domain name, though. All that remains is for the various ISPs to update their caches so the DNS info propagates (yes, again, because the settings were just changed yesterday evening.) I've been told it can take up to 72 hours, so all I can tell people who have been having connection troubles is to keep waiting. :/

If it doesn't work in two days, though, I'm at a loss as to what else to do! ;.;

(The Order of the Phoenix book has been out for years now, but just in case there's people reading this who only watch the Harry Potter movies, there could be spoiler-ness here!)

In short, the movie was AMAZING. :D :D :D Here and there are some nitpicks that purists will be bugged by, but I didn't think they retracted from the movie at all. It was quite a bit more dramatic and even violent than the other books, but that's fitting given the book it's based on (have I said it's my favorite... oh yeah, I did!)

WOOHOO take that you crappy TinyMUX softcode!!! God, if there is any language I ever found horribly and punishingly painful to code in, it's this one. ARGH.

But I did it! I coded a regular dice roller (ndx, totals all dice) and the usual Exalted dice rollers (regular, TN reducer and mortal). I'm proud of myself 'cause it actually took a lot of mindbending to do properly, but I just wouldn't give up. This is something that should've taken *minutes* to figure out how to do before tweaking it... I mean... it's a die roller! D: But because mushcode is a horrible, horrible beast, I toiled over it. ;.;

Actually, I just had to go back to the toil right now, because I forgot to add the botch check! Man, the botch check is this horrible string of characters, ewwwargh! It works though, and that's more than I could ask.

Ugh. I'm really sick today. Late last night (after the ADoA scenes I played all day) was, let's just say, a high stress moment. So I was pretty worn out and depressed the entire night. Didn't help my throat ache much, so now it's even worse today. x.x

Jon got me some medicine so I managed to stay up for WD40K. Deirdre came up with a plan to bind the dead god in Binzheng, Shas Na. Did some prep rolls before we left, etc. But we still had to sneak across the city to get to where Shas Na is kept, and Archana screwed up her stealth roll. Figures, huh? :P I even tried stunting it, but I nearly botched it (spending a WP is what saved me). So now she's all Ivory Dragon Form and ready to kick ass. I hope getting caught doesn't ruin Deirdre's plan though. x.x

Well, yesterday and early morning today have been quite relaxing -- something so rare to me that it's just utterly precious. I want to have more days that feel like this. So many more days that I can remember what it's like to not feel stressed, anxious and/or guilty every waking moment of my life.

I guess that's part of why I need to stay away longer. I've not realized just how much stress I was carrying until I took enough time away to realize what I'm like without it. Though... I thank those of you who have been leaving comments or checking on me through Jon. It means a lot. Thanks so much. And again, I'm really sorry I'm not around... I'm sorry I'm not strong enough to stay, to lend an ear, to participate in the things I said I would.

Anyway, about today...