sis' birthday


. was yesterday! 19 she is, now. Weeee ^_^ !!! And who started _very_ late with crafting the present? *cough*

I paid the price today - when I woke up and felt totally smashed, shitty beyond reason. I was feeling too ill to eat properly and my lower back hurts like I'd been beaten with a golf club. But it was worth it.

I started the planning exactly 1 AM on dec.14th. The self-making is kind of a family tradition between us siblings I guess. Especially when I have no money to buy. But then we all love making things for each other, and even with lots to spend we rarely just buy stuff - unless it's expensive material for something self made =)

So, the somewhat hasty preparations included picking the right pictures (Kenshin and Soujiro =^^= ), copying them to paper once, deciding to put them together on a second sheet, and transferring them from there to a plastic foil (I actually ripped off the cover of one of my biochemistry scripts - the things you improvise for your loved ones *grin*). My finger still hurts from the tight grip on the security pin I used to scratch the image onto the plastik -_-;

When I staggered off to bed at 4 AM I really planned to get up early and go to the lectures, I did! Didn't happen though, instead I spent the morning scrabbling a greeting card, decorated with chibi Schuldig, Yohji, Aya and Farfarello . That was a fight because I haven't done them more than once before and I'm not good at doing them yet *sweat*. Then it took me 2 hours to carefully carve out the stencil with a thread-cutting scalpel. I'm a perfectionist and hate it when I have no time to really think things through. But alas I chose the time frame myself and work best under pressure anyway *shrugs*.

Being at uni in a very boring seminar nearly proved fatal. Not only is the guy talking to us as if we were children "if you don't stop talking I'll have to send you out", but my friend next to me then starts drawing what looks like a persiflage of the guy. Lacking sleep badly, everything amuses me. A lot. Like in heat creeping up, trying to asphyxiate rather than laughing, but unstoppable little giggles coming out anyway, threatening to become a wholehearted helpless howling! I was so unfocused I nearly collapsed right there and then. Very strenuous task to hide real amusement, honestly. Fortunately I managed to concentrate on a question asked and was spared the supposedly humiliating event of being sent out. People looked at me funny, though, but I'm used to that :D

After finally (!!!) finishing there and getting a nice folder and some Edding™ pens in town, I hurried home and started the paint job, wich took three hours, inhalating nasty evaporations, hunched on the floor. Around 9 PM I just opened the door, held the folder into her face and yelled "THERE YOU HAVE IT!" - the first thing my sister screamed after careful inspection was "Kenshin not only has larger feet, he also has a larger "sword"...!!!". Yeah, it was *me* who trained her to draw dirty associations whenever you can ^_^;

She _really_ likes it. Woohoo! My work is done... until christmas @-@

Posted: Mi - Dezember 15, 2004 at 11:30 Uhr      

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