Jorenko called me not too long ago to tell me that he is in my old neighborhood in Chicago, looking at all my favorite restaurants and trying to find one to go to. He almost went to Taco & Burrito House, where I would get $5 gigantic chicken nacho platters. Thinking of his calorie intake, he moved on to New Tokyo.
“Would you believe I drew a pin-up girl?” I said to him. He seemed more shocked that I was capable of drawing anything at all, especially with MY HANDS.
Please note that the foot was horribly mangled in a subterranean kitten potty training incident.
Also, paisley is a bitch.
Last week’s doodlemash becomes today’s post. 
Echo exists because I had a dream about dying.
Echo is a main character of a story called Vivify that I wrote in October 2007. I recommend reading it before continuing. (Unlike a lot of my other writing, I’ve re-read this and didn’t hate it.)
Echo is the first of the fifth generation Vivified drones created by Dr. Weiss of the Vivifix Corporation. With all the vivi you’d think I’d named her that, but no. Echo’s past life remains an unknown to herself, but she has seen pictures of her recent past. The first two iterations of Vivified (Alpha, Bravo) were her, suspended in fluid for testing connections and controls. Future iterations had some motor skills, but the Echo line was the first to be able to walk and eventually be taught to function.
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Bus (SB, Schoolbus), started as a Dwarf Hunter character in World of Warcraft. Lame, I know, but that’s where she started. She spent her adventuring days hanging around with Underground (UG, Yuji), a man twice her height. Her adventuring days came to a permanent end when the account for Underground was hijacked and banned. My husband and I no longer play WoW.
In WoW, Bus had a flying snake named Aeroplane. She used to have a cat named Shortbus, but a GM determined that Shortbus was an insult and her name was changed to Littlebus. (I had another character’s pet renamed when they failed to recognize the greatness of Bagpuss.)
Bus later evolved in my mind, as I never wrote anything about her, into a young woman who left her family behind to go adventuring. Her life was rather droll, having everything she needed come to her whenever she wanted. She felt her life lacked a certain spark.
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Another image often stolen by tortured suburban teenagers finding random images on the internet and applying meaning where there is none, or applying their own meaning over the artist’s intent. This image shows another god character that was displaced battling internally; her original, non-god soul seeks to remind the new amalgam in charge that she was the first and she will not be brushed aside. This lady was intended to be a bit of a god killer, though born a mortal. Being mortal, she couldn’t properly destroy the souls of gods and they lived in her.
At the OB’s yesterday, the doc couldn’t find the head with the internal exam. So, instead of sending me for my usual non-stress test, she has me get another ultrasound. Jonas was dropped and perfect and facing the right way last Friday, but nooooo, that wasn’t good enough for him. He decided he wanted his head UP like everyone else. Since it’s only week 37 I’m not to worried about which way he’s facing yet. I just hope he doesn’t stay breeched when he gets to be too big to rotate anymore. He moves around so much right now.
Also the image on the right is totally me being a hero or something. It was scribbled in July of 2003 and since them a bunch of emo kids have decided it represents them and have been leeching it.
This is another one I’m not talking about. Okay, I’ll say something. I like the drawing. The “wallpaper” is stupid. DON’T JUDGE ME. The original drawing was pretty big, about a foot and a half tall. I actually had some big paper to draw on. Had to scan two parts and put it together.
Also Jorenko got me the BEST GIFT EVER: Munchkin.
Hey guys, I got a doctor’s appointment right at 7:30 AM to get some more testing done to see if this baby is killing me or not (so far it’s not). Last night, eating dinner around 6:30, I suddenly and unexpectedly got a migraine that lasted well into the night. After watching House, I took a painkiller and went to bed. Woke up an hour later when Jorenko came to bed. Couldn’t fall back asleep because the painkiller stopped working. Around 1 AM I gave up and took another painkiller, and sat around reading the internet for an hour or so waiting for it to work. It didn’t, so I just went to bed. MIGRAINE IS STILL HERE!
Image is titled Bad Hair Day. Black ink and some metallic “psychedelic” ink.
Update @ 11:54 — I still have a baby in me.
