20.075 / 50.000

I'm in again.
I will make it.
Never give up. Never surrender!

Tomorrow I'll have a day-off, so I will finally upload the pics for all those who requested something in the photo meme.

... one of my most-loved rpg characters. This picture is made by my friend Eva (some of them may know her as "Javid" or "Nireo" or just as "one of the most cruel game masters I ever met").

Ack. WTF????
What the hell is that? I started off into the new day this morning feeling healthy and really good, started to sneeze in the afternoon and have my head stuffed up by now.
Must be a really fast working virus. I hope it leaves as fast as it came!
*achoo*

Nicked by... anyone else, last seen at filkerdave's.

You are The Empress

Beauty, happiness, pleasure, success, luxury, dissipation.

The Empress is associated with Venus, the feminine planet, so it represents,
beauty, charm, pleasure, luxury, and delight. You may be good at home
decorating, art or anything to do with making things beautiful.

The Empress is a creator, be it creation of life, of romance, of art or business. While the Magician is the primal spark, the idea made real, and the High Priestess is the one who gives the idea a form, the Empress is the womb where it gestates and grows till it is ready to be born. This is why her symbol is Venus, goddess of beautiful things as well as love. Even so, the Empress is more Demeter, goddess of abundance, then sensual Venus. She is the giver of Earthly gifts, yet at the same time, she can, in anger withhold, as Demeter did when her daughter, Persephone, was kidnapped. In fury and grief, she kept the Earth barren till her child was returned to her.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

This again. I'm getting so bored at work I started to gnaw fingernails. That only means that the stressy time is about to threaten again. I so HATE it, I am so fed up with either complete boredom or so much work that I am literally drowning in it.
Yeah, and it's *this* time, too. Urgh.
Plus, having to arrange a meeting with four to six people whose schedules are even fuller than mine is no fun.
BLRGH.

Good thing: Day-off tomorrow. On Saturday, hubby is going to an aquarium fair in Wilhelmshaven and will be not back until the late afternoon, so maybe I can do some songwriting or work on my story again.

Yesterday we ran the first true, real ballast water analyse. We drowned in work, literally. I don't know how we shall analyse samples in a time window of 24 hours, when the samples arrive at noon in our lab and are then already about ten hours old. Two workers need about 8 hours to do 2/3 of all analyses. Huh. What to do with the last third without one of us being cloned? Meh. No fun, really not.
So folks, please have mercy on me when I am quiet and not as talkative as I use to be here on LJ - I simply have no time. And when I'm finally home, I'm too tired and headachy for phone calls. Sorrysorry!
*hugs to all of you*

Some nicer announcements: we have baby fish again, two of our mouth-breeding mommys-to-be set their fry free yesterday night. It's interesting to see how even mouth breeders have different strategies. My hubby's Malawi cichlids have many (up to 30) very small eggs from which relatively small young hatch. They keep them in their mouth until they are fully developed and then set them free - about 30 very small baby fish.
My Lake Tanganyika mouth breeding cichlid (a Cyprichromis) had less eggs, they were bigger and so are the young - abut 12 mm. Big babies compared to the tiny, 4-5 mm Malawi babies! :)

Nicked from... err... tia_thereal, [Unknown LJ tag] and kinder1of5

You Are A Chestnut Tree

You are a born diplomat with a well developed sense of justice. And even though you're impressive and intimidating, you're also fun to be around. You can be irritated easily, and you sometimes act superior. Nevertheless, you are sensitive of others feelings and very loyal. Sometimes you feel misunderstood and are fiercely close to those who know you best.

Mostly that's what and how I am, right, but... folks, am *I* intimidating? Huh... :)

Nicked frem lisande

:)

Your Dominant Intelligence is Musical Intelligence

Every part of your life has a beat, and you're often tapping your fingers or toes. You enjoy sounds of all types, but you also find sound can distract you at the wrong time. You are probably a gifted musician of some sort - even if you haven't realized it. Also a music lover, you tend to appreciate artists of all kinds. You would make a great musician, disc jockey, singer, or composer.

Happy Birthday to jhayman!

Have a wonderful day!
*hugs*

Nicked from jhayman
OMG, I so LOVE the result!!!!!!

You scored as Babylon 5 (Babylon 5). The universe is erupting into war and your government picks the wrong side. How much worse could things get? It doesn�t matter, because no matter what you have your friends and you�ll do the right thing. In the end that will be all that matters. Now if only the Psi Cops would leave you alone. </td> Babylon 5 (Babylon 5) 100% Deep Space Nine (Star Trek) 88% Galactica (Battlestar: Galactica) 81% FBI's X-Files Division (The X-Files) 75% Moya (Farscape) 75% SG-1 (Stargate) 75% Serenity (Firefly) 63% Nebuchadnezzar (The Matrix) 38% Bebop (Cowboy Bebop) 25% Enterprise D (Star Trek) 25% Millennium Falcon (Star Wars) 19% Andromeda Ascendant (Andromeda) 13% Your Ultimate Sci-Fi Profile II: which sci-fi crew would you best fit in? (pics) created with QuizFarm.com

B5, YAY!!!!!

As we came home from Oldenburg on Saturday, of course we stopped at our favourite pet shop and of course again we bought some fish. :)
Got a bit bored yesterday evening, so I grabbed our digicam and took some new pics of my fishies.


One of my new tank inhabitants.

( more fishy pics behind the cut )

nicked from jaelle_n_gilla

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul
aryana_filker goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as vampire.
allisona gives you 18 milky white lime-flavoured jawbreakers.
aunty_marion tricks you! You get a block of wood.
callylevy gives you 18 brown apple-flavoured gummy worms.
eintx tricks you! You get a 3.5-inch floppy disc.
gallius tricks you! You lose 1 pieces of candy!
katyhh gives you 3 light orange watermelon-flavoured wafers.
kinder1of5 tricks you! You get a block of wood.
lisande gives you 5 light yellow pineapple-flavoured pieces of taffy.
minuial_nuwing gives you 7 tan cola-flavoured gumdrops.
ohiblather tricks you! You get a piece of paper.
aryana_filker ends up with 50 pieces of candy, a block of wood, a 3.5-inch floppy disc, a block of wood, and a piece of paper.
Go trick-or-treating! Username:
Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern.

;)

Yay, here they are - my Tamír Triad arrived this morning! Now I can join the Flewelling Celebration! :)
Huh. I have to divide up my rare free time between reading and writing now.

Happy Birthday to minuial_nuwing!!!

Have a wonderful day!

*hugshugs*

I finally got the updated test plan for the ballast water tests we will run from next week on. Surprisingly, again there were more samples listed for us than we had agreed about. Wah.
I spent the whole morning exchanging email with one of my Ballast Water Dutchmen, and finally we got things sorted out, everything is not that bad as I thought at the first sight. But I will need a chat with the Real Great Big ballastwater Boss before the analyses start again. Problem - he is on an industrial fair in the US until Saturday. Blrgh. I see intersting times coming!

Something nice: Roleplaying today night and tomorrow night, yay!

Today's word count: 1103
Chapter 2 finished. I'm not too content, but it has to do.

Today's not enough time for writing, I fear - I'm off to prepare for our choir concert right now.
We are doing the "Dettinger Te Deum" by Handel and the "Nelson Mass" by Haydn. General rehearsal yesterday was just bad enough to grant us a good concert today!

And, btw:
*hugs* and "GET WELL SOON" wishes to yarisuma, who went to hospital yesterday. No, it's nothing serious, so don't worry!

Today's word count: 1349 by now
Chapter 2's nearly finished.
Najaro wants to kill me.

I've decided not to sign up for NaNoWriMo. Why? Because I have the time and am in the mood to write NOW and not in November, and I don't want my plot bunnies lying around lazily until November. So I will try my own NaNoWriMo and try to write under the same conditions as a nanowrimo-writer would do - from this day on, I will try to write 50.000 words until the 6th of November. So it's PersNoWriMo for me - personal novel writing month.
Today's word count:1892
:)

I carry around that plot idea for about a year, and it's the first time I have a complete story in my mind - feels good and I don't want to loose that feeling.
And here's one of the two main characters: Najaro, the healer. Piccie by me, and yes, he's MINE.

*yawn*
Had to get up not as early as shannachie had to, but 7.00 a.m. in the morning is a nasty time to get up when you have a day-off. *sigh* But Jan's lectures started again and he had to be at the Fachhochschule at 8:00 and the piano-tuner made an appointment with my old Yamaha piano at 8:30, so I HAD to get up.

Yesterday was a nice, lazy day, Jan was at the Fachhochschule most time of the day, and I spent nearly the whole afternoon talking with thesilee on the phone. We mostly chatted about Thesi's novels, and now I feel all inspired to carry on writing on my own stuff. Which I will do now.