Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded in Ysabel's InsaneJournal:

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Sunday, May 15th, 2011
3:52 am	Last night at Mom's place, and we lost power around 2 am. After a little while of power not coming back, I shuffled stuff out to the RV during the lulls in the rain so that Amy could sleep out there where there's power for her CPAP machine. Around 3:30ish, about 5 minutes after getting her all settled, the power came back on, of course. Still haven't been able to get back to sleep, and it's 6 now. Current Mood: tired (Comment on this)
Monday, April 18th, 2011
10:43 am	I have a truly ridiculous amount of squee over the fact that Rainbow Dash defending Fluttershy's honor (in exactly those words) is now canon. Current Mood: squee (Comment on this)
Friday, April 8th, 2011
4:29 pm	On the looming shutdown This pretty much sums up my opinion. Current Mood: pissed off (Comment on this)
Monday, April 4th, 2011
9:27 pm	I aten't dead. Just...either it's short enough to drop on Twitter or it's not stuff I want to write publicly, lately. Current Mood: thoughtful (Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
1:16 pm	Holy crap wow next Monday is going to be a hell of a day. Current Mood: overwhelmed (Comment on this)
Friday, October 1st, 2010
8:24 pm	I want to write. I want to draw. I want to play music. I feel like my internal spring of energy for such things is flowing as strong as ever, but instead of flowing into this nice deep basin for catching, it's spewing out into a drought-stricken desert and just making mud and maybe a puddle or two. And to take the analogy way too far, my work is the herd of animals laying in the mud keeping cool and hydrated. So I suppose my spring is being useful but...yeah. Current Mood: tired (Comment on this)
Thursday, September 30th, 2010
10:29 pm	I should really try to write again. Current Mood: tired (Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
9:45 am	Amy pointed out something interesting yesterday about me. Probably my number one struggle with relationships is that I need to feel needed and useful, but not used, and I am not very good at finding or maintaining that balance myself. I get frustrated if things consistently sit too far in either direction, and it's a boundary I am not good at maintaining with people I am truly close to. Current Mood: thoughtful (Comment on this)
Saturday, August 15th, 2009
5:12 pm	Quick break in the hotel room in Grand Rapids, and what do I do? Connect to the wireless network and check Twitter, LJ and DW... All told, the trip has had way too many disasters, but they have all eventually been resolved, at least. I would like a less disastery vacation some day, but I suppose I shouldn't complain, as I am at least getting a vacation. Current Mood: tired (Comment on this)
Friday, August 7th, 2009
9:28 am	Streaks in my hair A couple of pictures of the new hair coloring (and recent cut). It came out subtler than I originally intended, but I like it. Current Mood: pleased (Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
9:54 am	I haven't forgotten my promise to post pictures. I either need to get the ones Joel took or I need to grab the ones I took using Amy's camera and upload them, and I haven't done either yet. Interim update: three windows shattered, five more with frames broken so they'll have to be replaced even though the glass survived, lots of windowscreens trashed, a window air conditioner trashed, skylights trashed, roof will have to be replaced. We have a $4000 hail deductible on the house. We'll have to figure out whether we want to try to pay the incremental cost of any upgrades we could do as long as we have to replace a bunch of stuff. The Taurus is totaled, though we'll be buying it back since it's just cosmetic damage. We'll be getting around $4000 for it net, so that pretty much covers our deductible on the house. The Honda took approximately $7500 in damage. The trailer hasn't been evaluated yet but I suspect it's totaled as well. This entry was originally posted at http://ysabel.dreamwidth.org/1460.html. Please comment there using OpenID. Current Mood: tired
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
12:05 am	ZOMG TORNADO So we had a close encounter with a tornado a couple of hours ago. Shattered windows but no injuries other than the hailstone that hit Bill in the ear and the little glass shard I stuck myself with cleaning up a bit. Still no power, posting from my phone. Should have some impressive photos in the morning... This entry was originally posted at http://ysabel.dreamwidth.org/1112.html. Please comment there using OpenID. Current Mood: frustrated
Thursday, June 25th, 2009
3:31 am	Help me, VURD So for a game I'm playing, I need a phrase in Japanese (or, frankly, in bad wannabe Japanese). I'm wanting an overly-polite "Excuse me, Secretkeeper, please hear our prayers," sort of statement. The obvious bits are something like "Gomen nasai Secretkeeper-sama, ?? ?? kudasai," but I'm not sure what the ?? ?? should be. This is an spell invocation for a cleric of Hello Kitty, so weeabooness is totally in-character, if that matters any. ETA: Looks like I had anonymous and OpenID comments turned off. Whups. I think it's fixed now. ETA2: Here's what I have so far, in romaji: Gomennasai Secretkeeper-sama watashitachi no inori o kikite kudasai Thoughts? This entry was originally posted at http://ysabel.dreamwidth.org/874.html. Please comment there using OpenID. Current Mood: awake
Friday, June 5th, 2009
2:32 pm	Why do I read transfeminist writings? It just ends up pissing me off. Especially when it's good. This entry was originally posted at http://ysabel.dreamwidth.org/663.html. Please comment there using OpenID. Current Mood: pissed off
Thursday, April 30th, 2009
9:52 pm	Just testing the crossposter. Nothing to see here, these are not the posts you're looking for, move along. This entry was originally posted at http://ysabel.dreamwidth.org/450.html. Please comment there using OpenID. Current Mood: tired
Friday, August 3rd, 2007
1:03 pm	See LJ explode. Explode, LJ, explode! (Comment on this)
12:07 pm	Yes, this is the same Ysabel as over on LiveJournal. Staking out a place. I'm still not sure what I'm going to do right now, whether I'm going to split across both or what. We'll see. Current Mood: thoughtful (1 Comment |Comment on this)
9:51 am	Public Service Announcement I have a permanent InsaneJournal here: ysabel They're only $30 right now, though I hear the price is going up. (Comment on this)
7:37 am	Here's a great essay in reaction to the YouTube video of anti-abortion protesters reacting to being asked what the penalty for getting an illegal abortion should be. The insight that these people are not getting that crime != sin is, IMHO, a significant one. (Comment on this)
Thursday, July 19th, 2007
11:14 am	The Only Debate on Intelligent Design that is Worthy of its Subject. I've so wanted to do exactly this, after exhausting myself trying to be reasonable. (Comment on this)