Life Updates, again!

Life is a time consuming bitch.

Every time I start thinking things will settle down and I'll feel less stressed, and have some more time to do stuff, the opposite happens.

After 9 weeks with crappy internet, and having to step away from raiding with my guild in WoW, we finally decided to switch providers.

And dear god, I can play!

Without lag!

And at night!

Have I had much time to do so? Well, no, but still, I can!

Sadly the install was supposed to be a Friday install but because of Murphy's law with the Optus tech's that day, it got pushed to Saturday.

I had to cancel a bunch of my plans Saturday (upside was I finished my friend's birthday gift) to wait for the tech.

A 7.30 am to 12 noon window for them to show up, and just my luck, they showed right near 12.

The install itself didn't take long.

The tech said 20 minutes until we could set it up and be internet filled.

An hour and a half on the phone later, get told it won't be up until late Sunday.

Then get told it won't be until Monday.

This totally messed up my Sunday plans of sitting and doing a bunch of my TAFE assessments.

But in the end it didn't matter, because I got a damned cold.

Spent all of Sunday and a good chunk of Monday in bed, with hankies and a bucket.

Missed my Monday class too.

The TAFE assessment was a group project, and it didn't come together until the very last minute because life!

TAFE itself is going pretty well.

A couple weeks in, already have assessments all over the place. 

Next week I have a presentation to give, but that will be on cross stitching, so easy enough. But to satisfy the visual component of the marking scheme, I'm making up some little kits for the people in the class. 

So I need to make up 30 little cross stitch kits. 

Trip to Spotlight this weekend I think!

Apart from that I finally got a new phone.

My little HTC Desire HD has been a great phone for the last 5-6 years, but the touch screen doesn't respond as well, the apps I use are starting to not work on the outdated Android platform it runs and the speakers were going.

And the battery, 5 hours until it was almost drained.

I'm still waiting for my number to be ported over, but the battery on my new phone is amazing!

I went with a Samsung Galaxy s5.

My biggest happy about it? 

Hearthstone on mobile works, and I can get the cat selfie app.

So be prepared for cat selfies!

Apart from that, I'm still in a reading slump.

I'm days behind in Stitch Maynia (until tomorrow anyway)

I haven't done much stitching at all (though being able to stitch in class will be a godsend)

But now photos!

Only in Australia can we have a storm when it's mostly sunny, with rainbows and lightning crashing over the top of it....

Finished Birthday gift, I didn't take many photos of this before we left.

We only just made it in time for the party after all the mucking around with internet.

Cupcakes I made for my friends party, with  pink and purple icing!

I want to cross stitch this Spiderman art xD

And now I can selfie!

Illidan - Photo Spam

There will be photos. Lots of photos.

I may or may not have a habit of chasing him around with a camera....

Illidan is a rescue cat. 

I adopted him from the Cat Protection Society in Newtown. They are a no kill kitty shelter and they do great work.

We went in because I refuse to buy a pet from a breeder or pet store, not when there are animals without homes.

We went into the little kitten play room first, and the kittens were adorable, but they weren't interested in us.

So then they showed us the kittens who were in the cages because they'd had their playtime.

I picked up Illidan, who was named Babe Ruth at the time, he was so tiny and adorable.

He curled up on my shoulder straight away,

He picked me :)

His story is that he was dumped at a few old on the side of the road in a box and someone found him, took him to Cat Protection.

He had a tilted head when he was a kitten. Vet's had checked it out and said it would likely grow out, but there was nothing to worry about, as having a constantly tilted head can be a sign of some pretty serious kitty diseases.

But nobody wanted to take the kitty who was different, until me that is :p

When we were bringing him home, he refused to stay in his carrier. He was trying so hard to get out I thought he would hurt himself, so I let him out and he just curled up in my arms and slept until we got home. That second picture is him in the moving car. That's what he still does.

I've never been able to get him in a carrier, so I taught him to be on a harness, and while he doesn't walk like a dog would, he can't run off and he knows not to pull on it.

I named him Illidan, after Illidan Stormrage, one of my favourite World of Warcraft characters. And Illidan loves WoW, and watching WoW videos.

Illidan is not a fan of other cats.

Earlier this year Illidan got sick. Spent a few days in a vet. He got a minor case of Urinary Crystals. So now he's on a special dry food to hopefully stop them from coming back. He was really lucky and only had crystals the size of sand.

The top tattoo is a Chibi version of Illidan, with a kitty paw, for my kitty <3