Stuff, yuletart, and yet more stuff

[ileliberte]

• The state of me is mediumish, tending towards mostly fine. Work's ok and there's a spot of freelance design stuff here and there, but the really cool, big illustration project I thought I'd be working on, fell through unfortunately. So hey, if you're looking for a freelance illustrator with reasonable rates and a winning personality... :D (<-- that's me pimping myself out, jsyk)

• yuletart reveals are up. Mine was a Due South piece with Fraser and Ray (Kowalski) and was posted here.

• I'm almost finished with the wee Sam and Dean in Halloween costumes picture, and I already have another Glee picture in my head. With Mercedes this time, because Kurt and Mercedes deserve more BFFness than canon's delivering. And because Kurt and Mercedes being totally unimpressed by their boyfriends being distracted because they're too busy arguing over football and sharing frowns in stereo is an image that amuses me.

• Paid LJ account users, do you know of any coupons/discounts like last year? I managed to get a year's paid time for less than $10 then from a coupon someone sent me, but the year's almost up and any info on a discounted price would be helpful :)

• I changed my first diaper. I am both proud of myself for not being a total wuss and grateful that it isn't something I have to do often. I love my nephew, but I prefer the coddling and playing to the more unpleasant adult care-taking things that people have to do with their toddlers.

• Must see if people are up for another round of trekreversebang.

• I feel like every time I finally get completely used to writing the year in dates, a new one comes by and messes it up...

Comments

[ileliberte.livejournal.com]

Haha, when I told my sister my travel plans, the first thing she asked me was "Would you be ok staying home and babysitting A for a few hours so that we can go have a rare couples night out?" XD No labor cheaper or more convenient than a sister apparently.

And the diaper was totally unavoidable, a just woken up and groggy toddler with damp clothes plus my sister on the phone about some important financial stuff meant that I would have to be the suckiest aunt ever if I tried to pawn him off on her instead of getting him into dry stuff right away. Thankfully that was it for the non-fun parts of adult duty.

[ratcreature]

IIRC my brother and his wife have some sort of arrangement with their upstairs neighbors who have a kid roughly the same age as my niece (I think a few months older).