Various Gossipy stuff I never got around to....

[msfledermaus]

I really meant to tell people this stuff, honest!

Ben the Neighbor shaved his head. He now looks like a refuge from the Marix. When he had it done Peter knocked on my door and told me, "Michelle, Ben's been mugged!" "Oh No!" I wailed. "yep--the bastards got his hair!" and Ben popped up around the corner, scaring the beejezus out of me.

I narrowly missed having a $100 bill thrown at me from a black Mercedes that apparently prowls my neighborhood from time to time. True fact--some unidentified guy drives around in a black Mercedes and occasionally tosses out c-notes. Before my neighborhood gets covered with hopeful Mausketters, I should remind you that anyone crazy enough to throw money at you might have one of those handy-dandy conceal-and-carry permits they're handing out lately. anyway, I didn't get the money--Bill from the corner store did. Lucky so-and-so...

French fries....Nothing wrong with that....

Peter went thrifting and left me a huge pile of pastel yarns and a set of 5 needles. The really good bit is the yarn is all about 2 feet long, cut into lengths. So I've been laughing maniacally, making this horrible garter-stitched pastel THING....with fringe. Lots and lots of fringe. When I'm done I may have to put sequins on it, just to be really awful. Bad maus. Bad, bad, Maus..

The Llewellyn lady e-mailed me...she likes my stuff, and has some ideas for some sketches. Nothing comcrete, but I have a definite feeling of moving forward a bit here. Woowoo! So now I must sketch like I've never sketched before!!!...
...Once I untangle myself from the horrible pastel Knitting...Oh god the knitting....

Sooooo...things are pretty swell:)

Comments

[joei.livejournal.com]

Way cool. You got more yarn and needles for your mad knitting habit.

Too bad you didn't get the 100. That would have bought you lots of glitter and sequins and even more yarn. Heehee.

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[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

I think the Yarn Fairy likes me...whenever I finish a project I end up with more yarn than I started with:)

Oooh, what i could do with an extra hundred, lemme tell ya!
I'll tackle every black car I see from now on. Muahahaha!

[darkknight9.livejournal.com]

I should remind you that anyone crazy enough to throw money at you might have one of those handy-dandy conceal-and-carry permits they're handing out lately.

Or they might not....why would that scare you any more than before? :)

[cynnerth.livejournal.com]

Things are swell! Yay! That's what I like to hear. :)

[phil99.livejournal.com]

one of those handy-dandy conceal-and-carry permits they're handing out lately

What are they then?

[joei.livejournal.com]

I wonder if that black Mercedes ever travels to the south side of Milwaukee... I could use an extra 100 myself.

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[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

Where'd Cyn and i put that there Orbital Mind-control_Laser, anyway? then we could be sure he gets to Milwaukee!

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[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

Permission to carry a concealed weapon--basically a handgun. Our local government just passed the bill. Veeerry un-Minnesotan, this law, most of us are all pretty freaked.

I was just thinking that whoever's nuts enough to throw money out the window might have some other things the voices are telling him to do, so I wuz advising caution:)

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[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

I sure do like the swell-ness:)

I'm really excited about doing the sketches for Barbara...ohhhh, I hope they come out well!!!

Hey, give Mr Freekee an extra hug for me, willya? I know he's a busy boy lately, but my browser's fighting me again...I hafta fix this infernal thing...with a hammer....

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[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

This is true...but I keep trying to figure out why someone would throw that kind of money around...could be a dealer, could be a guy who likes to watch people scramble for money, could be an actual humanitarian-type.

If I do catch a $100 bill, I'll see if I can't ask him why he's doing it...nicely, of course:)

[crafting-change.livejournal.com]

I want to see pictures of the pastel thing when you are done.

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[darkknight9.livejournal.com]

:)

It's actually C. Montgomery Burns in "human" form.

:)

I just want to know why you would associate a concealed carry permit with debauchery...

Did I spell that right?

I hope your day at work is low stress today...!

[sirreal13.livejournal.com]

Yay about the Lllewellyn fairy godmother liking your stuff... Draw, lady, as you've never drawn before (you already said that, dint you). May your pens and pencils be as rapiers against the tide of mediocrity...

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[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

Not debauchery, just unpredictable behavior, that's all.

Gotta go, more later...

[ainetl.livejournal.com]

2 feet long pieces of yarn? amazed that you knew exactly what to do with it :)

good news on the Llewellyn lady, keep us posted.

(note to self: next time in mpls hang out in ms fledermaus' general neighborhood and watch for black mercedes.)

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[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

I was stumped at first, but then the evil little bug-zapper that passes for my mind lit up with the fringe idea...

It's about a quarter done...it's going kind of slow, but wowww, is it ever pastel!

Hey, I'll ask if the guy can give me two c-notes, since I hafta spread it around more people:)

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[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

I will draw and draw and draw until my eyeballs fall right outta their sockets!!!

*Hurries for pens and pencils and inks and gleeeeeeee!*

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[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

No problem...Muahahahaha!!!! I have to see if Ben's done photoshopping the beginning of the pastel thing>:)

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[crafting-change.livejournal.com]

awesome.

[darkknight9.livejournal.com]

I was just thinking that whoever's nuts enough to throw money out the window might have some other things the voices are telling him to do, so I wuz advising caution:)

Hmm....he might be....but, if he/she were ever institutionalized for mental disorders or judged to not be able to take care of themselves (even in their teens) they would be turned down for a permit. Then your car-drivin philanthropist would just be a different kind of person with a concealed weapon.

A felon. :)

But then again, the people who want to shoot others for nefarious ends have never really cared about laws in the first place....like our government!!!

:D

[phil99.livejournal.com]

*smiles* Why on earth would your peeps do that? Really, what possible good can carrying a hidden gun do?

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[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

We're becoming a *very* paranoid country....a lot of people think if they were packing heat that their troubles will be over and they can shoot it out Western style. There's a looootta testosterone running around these days:(

Personally, I think we're going to have a lot more stupid and tragic fatalities--road ragers, gunfights at bars, kids playing with unsecured guns and blowing their heads off by mistake or taking them to school. and I'm not a complete anti-gun-person saying this; I used to target shoot with my grandfather's squirrel rifle as a kid, and enjoyed it. But a handgun is a very different deal entirely....

[phil99.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I agree. I've "played" with guns in the past. Shooting in ranges and cans and sofas and fridges and balls and things. But having a concealed weapon legally is just not on.

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[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

It scares me more than just a bit these days...

But I'll keep being stubborn and knitting the stress away.
*knit knit knit knit knit*

Whoops! You're tangled in the yarn! I'm sorry!!!
*tug tug*

[phil99.livejournal.com]

*tries chewing his way out through Ms Maus' superstrength yarn*

*gives in and resorts to being tangled up with the maus, hanging by a thread - literally - to her every word*

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[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

Don't eat the wool, you! That's mohair!!!
If you have to eat yarn eat the acrylic stuff, man!
*mock scolds*
Well, maybe I can knit around you or something.
*knit knit knit knit*

As for words...um....my feet hurt? Umm, I'm hungry? Spring rolls? Ooh that's a good word...