Squirrel is done!

I have finished an adorable cartoony flying squirrel! Woot!

( Photos below )

Now I just have a dragon head, a snow leopard, and a modest stack of little projects to finish by Halloween. Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

I shouldn't have...

...but I did.

It looks like unless finances go unusually well in the next two months, I won't be buying a rainbow boa at the reptile show in November after all. Because I just spent the money I would have put towards that on something else which, when I thought about it, was something I wanted more.

I just bought a piano. A very nice second hand upright "spinnet" type. The total end cost is going to be a touch over $1k, I've paid $325 thus far, and will be making monthly payments on it until it's paid off. I normally am not willing to purchase anything I can't buy outright, but they don't charge interest, and I feel a piano is something important enough to me to go into debt for, when there's no interest accruing.

I didn't set out this morning to buy one, of course, but JJ and I stopped into a music store on our way back from running some errands, and while he looked at electric guitars and amps and pedals and things, I was sort of mooning over the pianos, and noticed the payment plans, and I sat down to play, and I just realized how badly I'd missed it, and how long it had been. I wrote, or rather arranged, a piano piece more than a decade ago. It was the one thing I always played when I had ran into a piano but didn't have any sheet music on me. I knew it by heart easily, and never forgot it, because I'd written it. But after something like five years without touching a piano... I'd forgotten it! I tried to play it, and I couldn't. And it just hit me how long it had been, and how sad it was that I was losing this talent. And thus I just couldn't resist it. JJ will probably be chipping in a small amount towards it, but mostly I am paying for it myself. It's going to be delivered quite soon (I need to clean out the living room of boxes so they have somewhere to put it!) and I really can't wait. I'm going through all my old piano books, and I may see if I can get my parents to mail me the rest of my music, which I accidentally left at home when I moved out.

I'm going to have a piano! Glee!

I just bought something that costs more than a thousand bucks! That's the most I've ever spent on anything in my life. Eeep!