"Thingie will not do, soldier."

So~ I have a question for all the awesome cosplayers on my flist. :D;; Is there a way to stamp or depress vinyl? I'm working on the pattern for Padme's boots (which look like this) and there are depressions in the shinguard-things. I'm making them out of vinyl, I'm just not sure how to get the depressions. Any ideas? :D;; I'm just using your regular, run-of-the-mill vinyl that you get from JoAnns or whatever.

Actually, I admit the only real sewing I got done today was plushie clothes, but those have a closer deadline. ^^; And speaking of deadlines, I have a couple of writing ones coming up, but I don't actually feel like writing, which is not cool. :x All I want to do is sit around and watch The Invisible Man but I just finished disc two and I'm going to run out in another week or something at this rate. SciFi, you had BETTER put out the second season or I will be very sad! (Also, Darien has so superceded Setsuna as my desktop wallpaper. Uh. XD I suppose it's better to idolize an intelligent, ballroom-dancing ex-thief who can turn invisible instead of a barely-more-than-a-teenager ex-child-terrorist Gundam pilot?)

Also, my nose is drippy for no reason and it is driving me crazy. D: And then today I went to the gym at 4:30 and ahaha, all the machines were full. People seriously need to stop working out! >> So I came home and went running (in an attempt to time myself; as far as I can tell, I'm running about 9.6-minute miles, which sounds about right?) and actually did the first day on my ab-training tape. I think I might be in pain tomorrow. XD

Also, there was an ad for merlinpodfic and OMG, I want to run and listen to Merlin fic. How perfect is that? XD I'll tell you! It's perfect for half-marathon-training~!

THIS SONG IS SO ADDICTIVE.

Because getting gored by a mythical beast was an awesome plan.

I think they must be playing Rock Band or something upstairs. The music I'm used to, but there sure is a lot of banging going on. XD; Which would be fine, really, except it's been two hours or something now, and I'd like quiet. :x Ah well. I suppose I could drag Exia into my bedroom, but it's not as comfy as the living room.

So I've actually almost finished the Merlin plushies completely; Merlin and Morgana and Gwen all have clothes, and Arthur... well, Arthur was relegated to the corner. Naked. Because, well, I didn't want him getting any ideas while I was in the process of procuring some pants for him. XD (ILU, Arthur, really~) I was going to work on my Padme boots tonight, but that's not going to happen, so I guess it'll be either Thursday or Friday when I get to them. Maybe even Saturday. But at least I already have foam, from my aborted XP costume (ahaha XD) so I'm going to appropriate what was probably going to be Ryoma's gauntlets for Padme's shinguards.

So I am still not too sore from my workout tape, except for the part while I'm actually doing the workout and then OW. XD I opted to go running again today, since I won't have time to work out tomorrow and I was trying to be home when UPS delivered my Padme blaster - but lo, I got home at 5pm to discover that they'd come at 4:30 and hadn't left it with the office whut? D: So anyway, I called to just go pick it up, because it was still early enough, but of course the driver with my package wouldn't get back to the depot before they closed so I have to get it tomorrow. Seriously, UPS. What did I ever do to incur your wrath? Because I seem to incur it more often than the average person.

So I realized that by trying to re-drizzle all of my clusters, I kind of ended up just wasting about three days out of this past workweek. Uh. Oops? I guess I'll just explain to Vicki tomorrow what I was trying to do; I'm going to hopefully finish up the variability for real soon, and I want to get on that X-ray reduction. I'd work on that tomorrow, but I also have to read the paper for extragalactic-ph. Or at least have taken enough of a look at it that I know more about it than just the title.

I have started three paragraphs with "so". Wow. XD;

I didn't think I even had that much to say. ^^; Now I'm going to go try to... be creative or something and earn money for words. :D; And not let myself watch more Invisible Man I WANT IT TO LAST.