Ramblings and Musings of the Insane, Philosophical Ladybug

We stayed up all night trying to pack things, and we still didn't get it all done. XD; I finally had to lay down for a bit, and when I woke up the second time, my brother was here and he was helping get more stuff packed. Now it's evening and we're still not done. We'll be staying here again tonight. ^^;

It does make me feel relieved that YGO isn't on this Saturday, especially since the TV was packed up today, but I still want to get to watch the other shows. TMNT had a really awesome and intense episode last week where Karai officially became the next Shredder and it looked like all the Turtles and Splinter ended up dead. The one exception was Leonardo, who is still in Japan, training with The Ancient One. The latter had a vision about disaster striking, though, so Leo is on his way home.

I should try to work a bit on my Monkees plotbunny. XD It's rather disjointed at the moment, but it involves them helping some of their neighbors move and then inadvertantly discovering that they're connected somehow with Baby Face Morales (the mobster who looks like Micky). I wrote a scene last week where Micky runs into trouble after encountering the gangster a second time, and I've had the plotbunny of the Monkees either helping someone move or having a garage sale for a while now. I just recently figured out how to connect the ideas into one story.

Probably won't be on later. We need to finish taking care of the new house so that we can finish packing and get outta here. XD; We're rushing because we need to get this house fixed up after we move and try to hurry and sell it before we have double payments.

Dad bought some huge 30-gallon plastic bags and I've been using them to put my plushies in. I'm just about done now, and the only ones remaining are a few that I've left out until the day we actually move out there. My YGO plushes are among those, but I'm not planning to put them in a bag like that at all. They'll be separate from the others. Since they're homemade, and fashioned in the Japanese UFO style, I'm extra-protective of them and I don't want them in a situation where they could end up badly jostled and such. XD;

Another of the plushies remaining is a Calico kitty that my aunt gave me for Christmas. ^^ I still can't decide on a name for her. XD; I've been debating on Jillian/Gillian, Scully, and Scarlet, for some unknown reason. I've been addressing the cat by all three of those names.

And I found that this 3-foot doll I have is losing her hair. .__.; Literally. It's falling out in chunks, but it looks like the roots are still in the scalp. I'm so confused. Maybe it's because she's been leaning on a wall that has the cold garage on the other side? At any rate, I'm sure my other old dolls don't have this problem. I'm rather ticked about it, though, and I know Mom won't be happy either. She loves my dolls and stuffed animals about as much as I do. XD I've been checking doll repair websites and trying to find out how much it would cost to reroot the hair, but I can't find any price estimates at all. -.-; For right now I tied a handkerchief on her head to try to keep the hair there while I try to figure out what to do.

Over the weekend I've been plotting more with my doppelgangers. I love them so much! Now I've been pondering over the Council's assassin Apollo and his twin sister Veleda. They both have raven hair, though Apollo's is straight and probably about to his shoulders while Veleda's is long and flowing and slightly wavy. Veleda is on the Doppelganger Senate and has whitish-blue feathered wings, and she's against the Council, which has set her at odds with her brother. Apollo, BTW, has one white wing and one black wing, both feathered. I imagine Apollo is the sort of rebel bishounen that fangirls usually coo over. XD; I'm trying to further develope his character and figure out why he's in support of the Council. I'll probably come up with something before too long.

I don't think I've ever been as excited about my OCs as I am about these doppelgangers. They really feel like something that's mine that I can freely develope and someday write original fiction about. And since doppelgangers are a phenomena that is usually ignored in favor of other supernatural creatures, there's not really anything that I have to conform to. All I have to do, really, is bring in the angle of doppelgangers causing chaos and mayhem and appearing to their charges shortly before the charges' deaths. And that angle is already covered where the bad doppelgangers are concerned.

My Monkee boxsets came on Friday, along with the Headquarters album I ordered from Best Buy. ^^ I think that's probably their best album. You can really hear in the songs how much fun they were having then.

I watched several season 1 episodes on early Saturday morning, and then later on I watched some of season 2, and my opinion that season 1 is superior was enforced all the more. XD; Season 2 just doesn't have the same magic and fun, in general. I still love The Monkees Blow Their Minds, though, and by the way, I discovered that the Screen Gems version cut out about five minutes of the episode! .___. I have to get to work further revising my novelization with those other minutes of footage.

These are the episodes I watched:

--Episode #25: Alias Micky Dolenz (Classic! Absolutely classic! And a Micky-centric episode. XD I was in Heaven. **purrs.**)
--Episode #28: Monkees On the Line (More brilliance. Not quite as good as I expected from the summary, but nearly! The scenes with the bed in the wall were great. XD And I loved Mike and Micky trying to find the girl who was threatening to commit suicide.)
--Episode #31: Monkees at the Movies (My least favorite of these three, but still a good Monkees romp. But I don't think they focused enough on Davy and on how stardom was going to his head.)
--Episode #57: The Monkees Blow Their Minds (As always, my favorite, and even more so now that I've seen the missing scenes.)
--Episode #49: The Monkees Watch Their Feet (Bizarre. XD The narrator was priceless, and the plotline was promising. I can tell Micky had fun playing his robot clone, but I think there should have also been scenes with the real Micky being interrogated. The way it was, I think the Micky character got gypped and upstaged by his clone! Also, it just wasn't the same with Mike only at the beginning.)
--Episode #4... I forgot. XD; But it was The Christmas Show. It was okay, and cute, but not as good as it could have been. And I think the boy's fantasy sequence lasted too long.
--Episode #41: The Card-Carrying Red Shoes (Another Mike-less episode, so it felt like something was gravely missing. But there were still funny scenes, and Chicken Lake was hilarious. XD Overall, though, it wasn't the Monkees' best spy episode. That honor belongs to episodes #5 and #26.)
--Episode #43: A Coffin Too Frequent (This was one of the first episodes I watched, but I hadn't been able to get it recorded, so I haven't seen it for six years. I loved it then and it's still a lot of fun now, though I find I like it a bit less this time around. I kinda wonder if I originally remembered it so sweetly because it was the first Monkees episode I saw with hurt/comfort (Micky got knocked out when the lady hit him with her umbrella). XD; Knowing me, it's highly possible.)

And now I must flee. XD I'm going to watch the angsty The Devil and Peter Tork.

I finished chapter 12 of LATT, and I revealed the truth behind Duke's odd behavior. I love Alexander's cameo appearance at the beginning. ^^ Also, I got a kick out of a line I gave Tristan where he was talking about Dartz.

I also quickly ran off a sketch of Siegfried and colored it. I gave him the light blue suit design I was thinking of. XD And since Side7 is still down, I decided to try LJ's new Scrapbook system to post it. http://pics.livejournal.com/insaneladybug/pic/000017d8

DSM and I are plotting to do a one on one RP! That's gonna be fun. X3 She's got some ideas to tell me in the evening, and I'm thinking of using the Doom Reborn angle so I can introduce her to Alexander.

And LOL, the other day in the Halloween RP I'm doing with Aubrie, Yami B decided to TP the game shop. Yami Yugi saw him and leaned out the window to yell at him, and then he got bopped with a flying roll. XD I want to illustrate that. Also, Mina thought that Siegfried reminded her of a flirtatious merchant she knew from the past. That was highly amusing. And it reminds me of an idea I was toying with for when we do the business meeting of DOOOM.

We ended up not going out yesterday, as it seemed that the people leasing the house claimed to have the flu. Our realtor thinks that they're just stalling. -.- Mom wondered if they were trying to get the money to buy the house themselves.