These last few weeks have been a blur. Other than the Writer's Block and fluff posts, writing while on the road has been tough. So here's a non-chronologically ordered summary of my life.

1. Galina emailed me and finally forgave me for not attending her wedding. That meant a lot to me. Galina was my Jewish Russian best friend from Jr. High and much of high school. She had a big influence on my life. It pleased me to no end to hear from her.

2. My road trip with Misty B. was super awesome! In Minneapolis, she introduced me to a designer who asked me to be in her runway show on May. The designer gave us a great tip on a website with inexpensive dancer shoes.

3. I went out to dinner with Harlequin, stayed at Karen's place (what a hostess) and found some amazing clothes at Sarah's marvelous Naked Lady party. It was so nice to see so many familiar faces at the party. Can't wait until the next one.

4. Volunteered at the WARM exhibit's pick-up day and read my first complete book since I closed the print shop.

5. Work has been treating me well. My main promo agency has been providing me with gigs galore. I picked-up two new venues for art modeling, one unsolicited. Been sending my headshot to a few film opportunities. If Sunday's film gig falls through, I'll have a day off. Otherwise, I won't have one until next week.

6. Amazingly, Rasputin Catamite has been updating every week. The Rasputin Barxotka archive is finally back on a much smaller, and less violent scale to appease the censors. As per request of Gino, there's a one-month non-recurring subscription option available until the site is updated again on a regular basis. As soon as I download my Flash software, SIF will be back. No Killerdyke.com content because Loki has been working even longer hours than I have at the farm.

That's it for now. I have to ready myself for today's promo gig. I'm looking forward to going to the GRAA International Sampler Fundraiser afterwards with mom and tasting yummy foods from around the world.

So I had this gig for an adult beverage company.  Theoretically, the whole trip back and forth should have taken me less than three hours in drive time.  The plan was to leave Rice, meet the other event personnel with the kit halfway, go to the agency for training, do the event, have the other EP pick up the kit at the store, go to my final destination in Minneapolis for some dinner.  But no, it's never that easy in Vas's world.


Anyway, off to call a potential go-see today.

I rarely make pet and animal posts that directly affect me, but lately, the stories have been too ridiculous not to share.

The Jimmy and Krissy got a really awesome job in the Cities.  This is super awesome for him, but we've been foster parenting their kitty, until several things are settled on their ends,  We've had a few crazy adventures in the interim:


I had to come to my mom's rescue from her own critter problems.



Lucinda's pink cat and green bird gave me some grief too.  (She really does have a swishy pink cat, and he's a total diva too.)



Back at home, my fat orange cat has been very flatulent.  He's not sick, but he farts a lot.  Let me tell you, there is no fouler scent on this Earth than a fat cat fart.

Beasts, the lot of them!

The Key

1- I am gone for a week, so I miss the RWOT meeting.
2- I get a call with no return number asking me what to do with the key to the Lions' Building after the meeting.
3- The secretary gives the key to my husband.
4- My husband calls me and asks me where to drop it off.  I tell him that it needs to be dropped off at the Rice City Hall or the hair salon.
5- Both of these buildings are closed so my husband drops it off at the post office and tells the postmaster that it needs to go to the Rice Legion.
6- The husband fails to inform me of this over the weekend.
7- The treasurer calls me letting me know that the owner of the hair salon got a stern call from City Hall asking her about the key.
8- I am supposed to straighten this mess out, so I call my husband.
9- He tells me about #5 after I call him asking why the owner of the hair salon didn't have a key.  He informed me that he didn't think it was an important detail.
10- I go to the post office.  The postal clerk has no clue about what the hell I am talking about.  She tells me to check in after 1:00 pm to see if the postmaster knows anything.
11- The postmaster informs me that he indeed got the key, and he indeed put it in the Legion's mailbox.
12- The Legion already picked it up.
13- City Hall directs me to the Legion's manager.
14- The Legion's manager knew of the key, but had no idea why it was in their PO Box, so one of the guys brought it back to the Post Office.
15- This is news to the postmaster, and he calls the clerk.
16- The clerk was out of the house.
17- City Hall giggles at me.
18- The owner of the salon is about as amused as I am, but we take it in stride.
19- I won't know anything else until morning.
20- I also find out that I left the paperwork for an unrelated promos in Monticello.  So, I'll probably have to drive there.

The Rub

I feel like I've just been in a clusterfuck, except without the wet, naked and sweaty action.  *FAINTS*  On the bright side, I might be going on an all-expense trip to the Southwest for a hot springs photo shoot in April.  I'll get to make up for the lack of wet and naked part without having to be in the middle of a clusterfuck.  That makes me happy.   Speaking of modeling, here's the latest Catnose -- the first one written by Stef.  YAY!